The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Vetterlein, Antje; Schmidtke, Tobias

Zusammenfassung

The Elgar Companion to the World Bank provides a comprehensive picture of the world's most important and powerful development institution, eight decades after its founding. This Companion assembles a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners, bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on the World Bank with a particular focus in the field of international relations. The book  sheds light on different theoretical approaches studying the Bank, examines how it interacts with its organizational environment, how it goes about its tasks and pursues its mandate in different policy areas, and how it has adapted to its changing environment over time. The Companion also gives voice to development practitioners who have worked with the Bank and offers critical perspectives on the Bank and its potential for future reform. In bringing together such a variety of topics and perspectives, this Companion provides the most authoritative and comprehensive overview of research on the World Bank to date.