Beyond the World Bank Agenda
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africa
asia
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banking
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development
economics
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finance
government
growth
health policy
healthcare
humanitarian aid
imf
inequality
infrastructure
investment
latin america
lending
money
neoliberalism
nonfiction
poverty
social capital
state formation
structural adjustment
underdeveloped countries
world bank
Product details
- ISBN 9780226214771
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2014
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World Bank, Africa experienced two lost decades in the 1980s and 1990s when economic growth all but disappeared. Poverty remains persistently high and inequality is rising. In Beyond the World Bank Agenda, Howard Stein argues that the controversial institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can either facilitate or impede development. Drawing on the examples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and transitional European economies, this revolutionary volume proposes an alternative vision of institutional development with chapter-length applications to finance, state formation, and health care to provide a holistic, contextualized solution to the problems of developing nations.
Howard Stein is professor at the University of Michigan's Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. His most recent volume is Deregulation and the Banking Crisis in Nigeria: A Comparative Study.
