Multilateral Institutions
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A01=Desmond McNeill
A01=Morten Boas
Anti-capitalist criticisms development programmes
Are development programmes neutral
Author_Desmond McNeill
Author_Morten Boas
books on economic multilateral institutions
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Criticism of development programmes
criticisms of neoliberalism
Development banks
economic sustainable development
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global governance
History of economic development programmes
International Monetary Fund
politics of development loans
politics of foreign aid
politics of multilateralism
politics of NGOs
racism and development programmes
reform of multilateral institutions
the World Bank
Underdevelopment of Global South
United Nations and development programmes
USA and foreign development programmes
World Trade Organisation
Product details
- ISBN 9780745319209
- Weight: 274g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In recent years, a great deal of public attention has been focussed on multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, IMF and WTO. This book offers students, practitioners and activists a critical guide to these and other major institutions - the Regional Development Banks and UNDP - that make up the multilateral development system. It analyses how they operate with respect to financing and lending, the various roles that they play, and related changes in their policy concerns - such as structural adjustment, sustainable development, and governance.
The emphasis is on politics within and also between multilateral institutions, analysing the relations – both competitive and collaborative – between, for example, the World Bank and UNDP. NGOs are also shown to be important actors, and the role they have played in recent years is critically assessed. The book concludes with some emerging trends: the ‘privatisation’ of the system, regionalisation, and ‘the politics of protest’.
Bøås and McNeill do not simply take the policies of multilateral institutions at face value, but ask how and why these policies came into existence. They seek to promote critical, but informed, engagement both with the member states of multilateral institutions and the institutions themselves.
The emphasis is on politics within and also between multilateral institutions, analysing the relations – both competitive and collaborative – between, for example, the World Bank and UNDP. NGOs are also shown to be important actors, and the role they have played in recent years is critically assessed. The book concludes with some emerging trends: the ‘privatisation’ of the system, regionalisation, and ‘the politics of protest’.
Bøås and McNeill do not simply take the policies of multilateral institutions at face value, but ask how and why these policies came into existence. They seek to promote critical, but informed, engagement both with the member states of multilateral institutions and the institutions themselves.
Morten Boas is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He is the co-author of Multilateral Institutions (Pluto, 2003).
Desmond McNeill is Head of Research at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. He is the co-author of Multilateral Institutions (Pluto, 2003).
