The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research

by Kate Bayliss (Editor), Ben Fine (Editor), Elisa Van Waeyenberge (Editor)

Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for gaining this understanding and applies them across a range of topics.

The research, practice and scholarship of development are always set against the backdrop of the World Bank, whose formidable presence shapes both development practice and thinking. This book brings together academics that specialise in different subject areas of development and reviews their findings in the context of the World Bank as knowledge bank, policy-maker and financial institution. The volume offers a compelling contribution to our understanding of development studies and of development itself.

The Political Economy of Development is an invaluable critical resource for students, policy-makers and activists in development studies.

344 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2011

Reviews

[Gabriel]

Great book to break down with the logistic and power relations by supranational organisations (and that means US power and European nations capacity to veto proposals) and the current neoliberal doctrine that are embedded and sponsored by self-defeating (they themselves say it in many reports how neoliberal policies have failed) supranational organisations

[Katrina Becker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Semi-read. Anything with "political" and/or "economy" in the title is not likely to be my cup of tea.