The World Bank And The Gods Of Lending

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The World Bank and the Gods of Lending

Author : Steve Berkman
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565492595
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank and the Gods of Lending written by Steve Berkman and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering the World Bank’s loan programs in the developing world in The World Bank and the Gods of Lending, author Steve Berkman finds nothing but mismanagement and hypocrisy: decades of assistance without any significant improvement in the lives of the poor; billions loaned for improving governance, health care and education with little to show for it; and donor funds given to dysfunctional government institutions or officials with a history of looting national treasuries. With sixteen years as a Bank staff member and consultant, Berkman presents compelling evidence of deceptive reporting and lack of due diligence as billions of dollars are wasted every year on corrupt and ill-conceived programs. Using internal reports and memos, project documents and the Bank’s Annual Reports as reference, Berkman demonstrates management’s obsession with lending despite the high fiduciary risks involved. Taking the reader inside several project fraud investigations, he exposes the ease with which funds can be stolen from the Bank’s portfolio, and the degree to which these thefts are ignored. Painting a picture of an institution that is run by a bloated bureaucracy, The World Bank and the Gods of Lending proposes changes that will rouse the Bank from its bureaucratic complacency and restore its central mission of alleviating poverty.

A Guide to the World Bank

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821353448
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the World Bank written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank Group works in more than 100 developing economies and is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. In 2002, the institution provided US $19.5 billion in loans to its client countries. This guide reviews the organisation's history, objectives and operations, and looks at the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Information Technology in World Bank Lending

Author : Nagy Hanna
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821325155
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Information Technology in World Bank Lending written by Nagy Hanna and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes a strategy to reduce poverty by boosting labor productivity and economic growth. It focuses on Uganda's two key sectors, agriculture and industry. The strategy seeks to make Uganda a self-sufficient food producer and a major crop exporter. It also advocates policies that would make the nation less dependent on imports and better at marketing its own products. Some suggestions include ways to improve labor markets, raise agricultural output, and broaden the tax base. Other recommendationsdiscuss ways to develop the financial sector and spur savings and investment. Also examined are the government's economic adjustment policies and their effects on the poor. Analysts point out the different ways that poverty affects men and women. The study also discusses how to increase public funds for social services that would improve the labor force. It recommends policies that will help women become full partners in Uganda's development. Tables and other illustrations throughout the text provide detailed statistics on Uganda's economic status. Topics include crop yields, poverty indicators, gross domestic product, and public sector expenses.

The World Bank

Author : Devesh Kapur
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815720126
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by Devesh Kapur and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This effort constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on the history of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank. Author-editors John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur chronicle the evolution of this institution and offer insights into its successes, failures, and prospects for the future. The result of their intense labors is an invaluable resource for other researchers and a fascinating study in its own right. The work is divided into two volumes. The first is organized thematically and examines the critical events and policy issues in the World Bank's development over the last fifty years. Chapter topics include poverty alleviation, structural adjustment lending, environmental programs, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), and the evolution of the Bank as an institution. The second volume contains case studies written by experts with experience in the various regions in which the Bank operates. There are chapters on the Bank's activities in Korea, Mexico, Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. Volume 2 also contains essays on the World Bank's relationship with the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, and its partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By special arrangement, the authors have had wide-ranging access to confidential documents at the World Bank, making this work a unique source of information on the internal workings of this critical institution. They have also drawn on extensive interviews with current and past Bank officials. Moreover, publication could not be more timely, coming as it does when many in the development community and in the U.S. Congress are questioning the Bank's track record and even its reason for existence. The World Bank: Its First Half Century will be of great interest not only to development practitioners but also to students of international relations, development economics, and global finance. During the course of the project, John P. Lewis and Richard Webb were nonresident senior fellows, and Devesh Kapur was a program associate, in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

The Globalizers

Author : Ngaire Woods
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801444241
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Globalizers written by Ngaire Woods and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reforming the World Bank

Author : David A. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883059
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the World Bank written by David A. Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why the World Bank has not achieved substantive efficiency or effectiveness in delivering economic assistance.

World Bank

Author : Cheryl Payer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 085345602X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book World Bank written by Cheryl Payer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful analysis of the Bank’s own policy papers and reports, which outlines its philosophy of development and the concrete effects of its projects.

The World Bank since Bretton Woods

Author : Edward S. Mason
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815720300
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank since Bretton Woods written by Edward S. Mason and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins, policies, operations, and impact of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the other members of the World Bank group: the International Finance Corporation, the International Development Association,and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

Financial Sector Reform

Author : N. Mathieu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821342916
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Financial Sector Reform written by N. Mathieu and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after its declaration of independence, Lithuania launched a program of market-based economic reforms that achieved remarkable results. However, a banking crisis erupted in January 1996, driven by a combination of ineffective bank supervision, poor bank practices, and deep-rooted sectoral imbalances. With financial support from the World Bank, Lithuanian authorities embarked on a broad economic reform program with two immediate objectives: the resolution of the banking system's operational and undercapitalization problems, and a reduction in the most severe imbalances in the economy. Volume I (see ordering information below) distills findings and conclusions and builds a policy action plan for fast stable growth. Volume II contains a collection of twelve policy notes that provide the technical analysis behind that plan. Also available: Volume II/Analytical Backgroung(ISBN 0-8213-4327-0) Stock no. 14327.

The World Bank

Author : H.N. Ray
Publisher : Indus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788173870583
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by H.N. Ray and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grameen Bank

Author : Shahidur R. Khandker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821334638
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Grameen Bank written by Shahidur R. Khandker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 295. The progress made by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in privatizing state-owned enterprises has created millions of new shareholders. But for the citizenry to buy and sell shares, these countries must develop stock markets and related institutions such as brokerages, clearing and settling organizations, and regulatory agencies. This paper examines the role of capital markets in the new market economies of Central and Eastern Europe and to what extent governments in the region should encourage the development of such markets. The authors address questions of whether the capital markets will serve merely as a forum for trading stocks or become a source of new equity capital to help restructure the enterprises of the region and whether governments should take a hands-off approach by letting the necessary institutions develop as they are needed or should actively create stock exchanges and establish the overall legal and regulatory framework.

Loans at Work

Author : World Bank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loans at Work written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1957-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World Bank

Author : C. L. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521790956
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by C. L. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable economic development and to poverty reduction throughout the developing world. It faces new challenges as capital shortages are replaced by large but volatile capital flows. The contributors to this volume argue that the Bank's greatest asset is its accumulated knowledge and experience of the development process, and propose that it organise itself around the concept of a 'Knowledge Bank'. They propose a shift in priority, away from lending with conditionality imposed on borrowing governments, towards assistance to governments in devising good development strategies. Part I examines the existing structure of the Bank and considers the World Bank as an institution. In Part II the effectiveness of World Bank assistance is evaluated. This book provides essential reading for politicians, civil servants, workers in the non-official sector, and academics and students involved or interested in the development process.

The World Bank

Author : Cheryl Payer
Publisher : New York : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by Cheryl Payer and published by New York : Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful analysis of the Bankas own policy papers and reports, which outlines its philosophy of development and the concrete effects of its projects.

The Lending Policy Of The World Bank In The 1970s

Author : Bettina S. Hurni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000302938
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Lending Policy Of The World Bank In The 1970s written by Bettina S. Hurni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pilot study - the first to analyze the World Bank’s lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade - concentrates on the Bank’s shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to “new style” projects, especially in the area of rural development, and on the resulting changes in lending criteria in the 1970s. Basing her conclusions on two years of independent research and access to confidential materials, Dr. Hurni evaluates the World Bank’s work; gives a good overall view of current development problems - including implementation of the “growth with equity” strategy - and their possible solutions; shows the effects of the new development goals in borrower and creditor countries, as well as on the institutional decision-making process; and offers recommendations for improvement of the Bank’s evaluation methodology and operational structures. She presents a clear picture of the positive and negative aspects of the World Bank as a multilateral investment model and shows its bridge-building function in the great North-South controversy.

The World Bank

Author : Eric Toussaint
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 9781897071380
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by Eric Toussaint and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely viewed with suspicion as the international economic arm of the U.S. government,the World Bank has become overwhelmingly powerful. Eric Toussaint gives a highly readable account of how this happened. In concise chapters he shows how the bank operates, who funds it, and what it sets out to promote. The World Bank's avowed purpose is to grant loans to the independent states of the developing world, to help them on their journey to recovery after colonial occupation. In reality, the conditions imposed on these states including enforced privatization of all public services, and enforced neo-liberal rules on trade mean that the Bank has become the new colonial authority in everything but name. This ambitious and critical study is a perfect book for anyone looking for a comprehensive history of the Bank and its role in world affairs. ERIC TOUSSAINT is president of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt and is a fellow and frequent lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam. He is the co-author of Who Owes Who? 50 Questions About World Debt.

The World Bank

Author : Jo Marie Griesgraber
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Bank written by Jo Marie Griesgraber and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insidera s view of a parliamenta s role in approving and overseeing government spending."