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Reinventing the World Bank.
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Journal of Development Studies
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June 1, 2004
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Reinventing the World Bank. Edited by Jonathan R. Pincus and Jeffrey A. Winters. Cornell University Press: 2002. Pp.288. US$47.50 and US$19.95. ISBN: 0 8014 8792 7 and 4037 8
Within the title of this little volume, 'Reinventing the World Bank' there is both an element of 'critique' and 'vision'. The notion of 'reinventing' speaks to the obvious: the World Bank is going through an identity crisis, a result of a long and mixed history of financing long-term development projects in the developing world. Criticisms have been accumulating for years from sources as varied as the streets of Seattle to the offices of the Japanese Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund and the pages of ...
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