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Taschenbuch

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552 g

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Englisch

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9798888907900

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  • Produktbild: In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass

  • Contents


    Preface vii


    1 Locating Development Economics 1


    Postamble: Locating the World Bank 14


    2 Beyond Bureaucrats in Business: A Critical Review of the World Bank


    Approach to Privatisation and Public Sector Reform 23


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 23


    1 Introduction 28


    2 Privatisation Theory: The New Synthesis 29


    3 Bureaucrats in Business: Context and Outline 31


    4 A Critique 32


    4.1 Narrow Analytical Framework 34


    4.2 Selective Use of Evidence and Bias in Interpretation 36


    4.3 Narrow View of What Constitutes Industrial Policy Leading to


    Over-Generalisation of Conclusions 40


    5 Concluding Remarks 43


    Appendix: Debating the Provision of Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan


    Africa: A Response to Nellis 44


    3 The Developmental State Is Dead – Long Live Social Capital? 47


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 47


    1 Introduction 48


    2 The Microeconomic Foundations 50


    3 The Forward March of Social Capital 52


    4 Neither Washington nor Post-Washington Consensus 59


    5 Concluding Remarks 64


    4 Flattening Economic Geography: Locating the World Development


    Report for 2009 67


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 67


    1 Introduction 68


    2 neg as ei 69


    3 From Pre- to Post-Washington Consensus 80


    4 Fixing the wdr09 84


    5 From Finance to Climate by Way of Conclusion 90


    vi Contents


    5 Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015 93


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 93


    1 Introduction 93


    2 wdr 2015 and the Knowledge Bank 95


    3 Situating the Turn to Behavioural Economics at the Bank 99


    4 The wdr Approach to Behavioural Economics 103


    4.1 The wdr’s Mental Model 103


    4.2 Behavioural Economics and Development: The Conquest of


    Another Frontier? 106


    5 From Behavioural Economics to World Bank Policy in Practice:


    The Case of hiv- Related Cash Transfers 111


    6 Concluding Remarks 115


    6 A Paradigm Shift that Never Will Be? Justin Lin’s New Structural


    Economics 117


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 117


    1 Introduction 121


    2 From Comparative Advantage to Development: Lin and the nse 125


    3 Lin and the Bank 141


    4 Conclusion 148


    7 Locating the Developmental State and Industrial Policy


    after the Crisis 152


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 152


    Foreword 154


    1 Introduction 162


    2 Lessons from the Developmental State Paradigm 167


    3 Industrial Policy 191


    4 South-South Cooperation by Way of Conclusion 209


    8 The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy 223


    Postscript as Personal Preamble 223


    1 Introduction and Overview 226


    2 From Welfare Regimenting … 232


    3 … to Convergence through Path Dependence to Crisis 245


    4 This Time (Social Policy) Is (and Was) Different(iated) 252


    5 Social Policy – It’s Financialisation, Stupid 259


    6 Towards Alternatives 272


    7 Conclusions as Starting Points 290


    References 293


    Index 344