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The political economy of the World Bank : the early years /
From the Publisher: The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years is a fascinating study of economic history. This text describes perhaps what is the most crucial time for development economics: the birth of the "third world," the creation of development economics as a disciplin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Stanford, Calif. : Washington, DC :
Stanford Economics and Finance/Stanford University Press ; World Bank,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: World Bank And Development
- Historical context
- Methodological framework
- Pars Destruens
- Pars Construens
- 2 Currie Mission In Colombia, 1949-1953
- Importance of the Colombia Mission for the Switch from Reconstruction to Development
- End of the Reconstruction Phase
- Initial contacts between the Colombian Government and the IBRD
- Collaboration between Lauchlin Currie and the IBRD
- Mission collects information
- Putting the team together
- First IBRD general survey mission, Colombia 1949
- Currie Mission Report
- Comite de Desarrollo Economico (1950-1951) and the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1954)
- Evolution of the relationship between Currie and the World Bank
- Tensions within the Comite de Desarrollo Economico
- Difficult beginning of the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1953)
- End of the affair
- 3 Economic Development In Theory And Practice
- Development approaches: balanced versus unbalanced growth
- Balanced growth
- Unbalanced growth
- Development approaches: program loans versus project loans
- Program loans
- Project loans
- Debate on development reverberates inside the IBRD
- Conflicting approaches: program versus project
- Program versus project: the bank's changing attitude
- Autobiographical notes
- Currie versus Hirschman: monetary and fiscal policy
- Analyzing the situation
- Hypotheses
- Clash
- Currie versus Hirschman: iron and steel production
- Analysis of the Currie Mission
- Interests at odds
- Informe de la Mision Parael Comite and the flesher solution
- Steel and development: reasons for disagreement
- Changing alliances
- Agreements and disagreements
- Sociological interpretation of the development economics debate: Robert K Merton and the "Kindle Cole" principle
- 4: At The Root Of The Bank's Policy Advice
- Urban development plan for Barranquilla
- Request for IBRD financing
- Why did the bank refuse financing?
- IBRD and housing loans
- ILO proposal and the first IBRD comments
- Disengagement of the IBRD
- Discussions at the bank: impact loans and social loans
- Impact loans
- Social loans
- Bank's relentless preference for directly productive loans
- Raising funds in the US capital market
- Wall street men
- US foreign economic policy and the wane of the New Deal
- Early successes of the bank: an obstacle to change
- Coda: the end of the debate
- Reorganization of 1952
- Black's bank
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of names.