Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Babb, Sarah

 
9780226033655: Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226033651 ISBN 13: 9780226033655
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2009

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The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) carry out their mission to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth based on the advice of professional economists. But as Sarah Babb argues inBehind the Development Banks, these organizations have also been indelibly shaped by Washington politics—particularly by the legislative branch and its power of the purse.

Tracing American influence on MDBs over three decades, this volume assesses increased congressional activism and the perpetual “selling” of banks to Congress by the executive branch. Babb contends that congressional reluctance to fund the MDBs has enhanced the influence of the United States on them by making credible America’s threat to abandon the banks if its policy preferences are not followed. At a time when the United States’ role in world affairs is being closely scrutinized,Behind the Development Banks will be necessary reading for anyone interested in how American politics helps determine the fate of developing countries.

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Sarah Babbis associate professor of sociology at Boston College. She is the author ofManaging Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism and coauthor ofEconomy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure.

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University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
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Englisch
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0226033651
ISBN 13 
9780226033655
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313
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