Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1598-1600
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
African Development ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Socioeconomic Transformation ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The World

Shantayanan Devarajan of the World Bank reviews “Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development,” by Machiko Nissanke and Muna Ndulo. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twelve papers, developed from work initially presented at the April 2013 symposium on “Growth, Poverty, and Inequality— Confronting the Challenges of a Better Life for All in Africa” organized by the Institute of African Development at Cornell University, examine the opportunities and challenges in attacking poverty and securing inclusive development through the advancement of Africa's socioeconomic transformation agenda.”

China’s Economic Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and the Role of the World Bank

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Freije-Rodriguez ◽  
Bert Hofman ◽  
Lauren Johnston
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

THE WORLD BANK ABOUT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF APPROACHES

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Olga Pryazhnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Global Agenda

The World Bank has made an important contribution to shaping the global agenda for reducing poverty, increasing prosperity and promoting sustainable development. The review examines the main milestones in changes of the World Bank’s activities in the field of social development. The evolution of the organization’s approaches to solving the problem of poverty reduction as one of the key obstacles to socio-economic development is outlined.

Leveraging Broadband for e-Government and Development in Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 569-591
Author(s):  
Stephen Kwamena Aikins
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
African Development ◽  
Mobile Broadband ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
African Development Bank

This study investigated the extent and benefits of Africa's broadband connectivity, its impact on e-government and economic growth, and the challenges and best practices for addressing them. Studies by the UN and ITU over the years have revealed Africa lags behind in the global broadband connectivity and e-government diffusion. The Connect Africa summit held in 2007 by the ITU and its partners came out with five specific goals to connect the continent and help improve its economy. This study reviewed the Connect Africa Outcomes Report, and analyzed the publications of three independent studies conducted by: a) the ITU, b) the World Bank and the African Development Bank, and c) Informa Telecoms and Media. The findings reveal that Africa has made substantial progress in international connectivity and mobile broadband penetration. Additionally, broadband connectivity has contributed toward some improvements in e-government initiatives and economic growth. The study concludes with recommendations to address the existing challenges to consolidate the gains made.

Aid Effectiveness

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Constantine Michalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
The One ◽  
The Imf

The collaboration the U4 launched at Utstein covered a wide variety of development issues handled by different international institutions. This involved in the first place coordination of their positions at the World Bank and the IMF, and the UN and its funds, programmes, and agencies. The World/Bank IMF were very important both because of the size and extent of their own programmes but also for helping developing countries manage the overall poverty reduction strategies within which all bilateral aid was supposed to fit. Increasing the effectiveness of bilateral aid could only succeed if it were part of a consistent overarching multilateral effort. This chapter starts with a discussion of U4 efforts to ensure that the poverty reduction strategies developed with the help of the World Bank/IMF in connection with debt relief actually reflected developing country priorities. It then moves on to U4’s efforts to improve the effectiveness of UN programmes which tended to be characterized by fragmentation and inefficiencies. The last part addresses the problem of coherence and collaboration between the IMF and the World Bank—the international financial institutions, on the one hand, and the UN and its agencies, on the other.

The World Bank and poverty reduction: past, present and future

2000 ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Kanbur ◽  
David Vines
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

Social knowledge and international policymaking at the World Bank

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Toye
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
Binding Constraints

The production of social knowledge in all international organizations is problematic because all are public bureaucracies. The World Bank provides a case study of the problems of managing in-house research in an international public bureaucracy. Not only are there managerial constraints on what the Bank is willing to publish, but the binding constraints on publication evolve. The evolution in managerial objectives at the Bank in recent years and the factors that have influenced shifts in its rhetoric and policy are examined. Are these adjustments merely rhetorical? Recent research on poverty reduction, governance and conditionality is discussed to gauge how far the Bank has moved.

The World Bank: Human Rights, Democracy and Governance

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas H. Moller
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Bank Group

The World Bank group has been criticised by a wide variety of groups over the years for its failure to adequately take into account human rights and democratic principles. Recently, the Bank has started to widen the scope of its activities so that now the Bank is involved in projects concerned with such disparate issues as the environment, poverty reduction and women in development. This paper focuses on one of the new Bank concerns, governance, and examines the prospects it holds for ensuring that the Bank and its borrower-countries respect human rights and democratic values. It then reviews the responses governance has received and suggests alternative means that may more effectively ensure that the Bank takes into account such values. Finally, the paper proposes a new test, based on Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to be applied to potential borrowers and the test is applied to Burma.

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