Potentialities in Applying Foucault’s Discourse Analysis to World Bank Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Sarah Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
It Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
International Authority ◽  
The World ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The Relationship

Applying the discourse analysis methods of Michel Foucault to reports researched and published by the World Bank may reveal certain kinds of thinking embedded in the work of the institution, and this may serve as an important resource or vehicle for understanding the relationship between the World Bank and the societies it services. Such insight is important because it acts as an international authority on the alleviation of poverty and inequality, and as an informative resource for other institutions and the public. For this reason, it is necessary to ensure its research does not cause unnecessary harm to the societies in which it operates, which are often vulnerable to external actors.

Society and Market in the Era of Globalization

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-355
Author(s):  
Dušan Pokorný
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
The Imf

AbstractThis chapter considers the meaning of the terms "society" and "market," and the need for markets to be institutionalized and legitimated. Obligatory norms and recommendatory guidelines today come from many sources: from states, from groupings of states, and from worldwide bodies such as the IMF, the WTO, and the World Bank. But when markets create profound inequalities both within and between societies, how do we determine what limits ought to be placed on markets? Since economic institutions are inseparable from culture, this is the "site" where the public will have to decide what is "society," what is the "market," and what will be the relation between them.

Human Capital and Agriculture Performance in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Eny Lestari Widarni ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Vector Direction ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the vector direction of the relationship between agriculture performance, employment in agriculture, and education in Indonesia. This research uses the vector analysis method. where the dependent variable and the independent variable take turns to see the direction of the relationship of each variable to each other. All data used in this study are sourced from the world bank data. We found that labor absorption in the agricultural sector in Indonesia continues to decline very sharply, it becomes a threat to agriculture performance in the future. Because there is a decline in performance in the future due to labor shortages and it is possible that the agricultural sector will be completely destroyed when there is a shortage of labor in this sector if the interest of the Indonesian youth in the agricultural sector is not invested.

A Comparative Analysis of the Nigerian Public Procurement Act Against International Best Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sope Williams-Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
State Level ◽  
Assessment Report ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

AbstractPrior to 2007, Nigerian public procurement was not formally regulated, in the sense that there was no law governing procurement at the federal or state level. This changed with the enactment in 2007 of the Public Procurement Act. This act was passed on the recommendation of the World Bank, which had conducted a country procurement assessment report on Nigeria in 1999. This article seeks to determine whether the Public Procurement Act meets the requirements of international best practice. The article examines what may be regarded as international best practice in the public procurement context and analyses whether the Nigerian Public Procurement Act contains provisions which accord with this practice. It also considers what factors are limiting the adoption of international best practice in the Nigerian context.

scholarly journals The relationship of the GDR to the World Bank Group

1975 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Bruns
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

De Facto Demilitarization: Budget-Driven Downsizing in Latin America

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Franko
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Past President ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Control Community ◽  
Military Expenditures ◽  
The Relationship

The international financial community has recently joined the arms control community in scrutinizing the relationship between military spending and economic growth. The Independent Group on Financial Flows to Developing Countries, headed by Helmut Schmidt, recommended (in Facing One World) that priority in financial assistance be given to countries that spend less than 2% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on security (The Economist, 1991a: 61). Robert McNamara, past president of the World Bank as well as a former US Secretary of Defense, supported this proposal in his speech before the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics (April 1991), recommending that military expenditures, as a percentage of GDP, be reduced by 50%. Nicole Ball, in Pressing for Peace: Can Aid Induce Reform?, argues cogently for conditioning international assistance on the initiation, or acceleration, of reforms in defense spending in the developing world (Ball, 1992).

Infrastructure quality and firm productivity in Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Bbaale
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Firm Productivity ◽  
Power Outages ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

Purpose The World Bank (2017) ranks poor infrastructure, particularly electricity, as the second topmost obstacle (after access to finance) affecting enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of infrastructure quality on firm productivity in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The author used the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) for 26 African countries and employed both descriptive and ordinary least squares techniques during the analysis. The author circumvents the endogeneity of infrastructure in the productivity model by using firm-level measures of infrastructure quality rather than the stock of infrastructural capital. Findings On an average, 80 percent of manufacturing firms in Africa reported having experienced electricity outages in the financial year preceding the survey. Power outages are negatively associated with the productivity of small, medium, young, domestically owned firms and non-exporters. On the other hand, the author observes a substitution effect of generators for the unreliable power from the public grid and this effect positively influences the productivity of large, old, foreign-owned and exporting firms. Practical implications The author argues that in addition to infrastructure capital at an aggregate level, dealing with quality issues at firm level is required to enhance productivity. More attention needs to be put to the elimination of power outages so as to improve the productivity of all firms particularly those that cannot afford to use generators in the place of electricity from the public grid. Originality/value The author notes that there exists scanty empirical literature on the effect of infrastructure quality on productivity for the case of Africa despite the existence of WBES for at least two waves for both developed and developing countries. The uniqueness of this paper in comparison to the previous literature is that the author undertakes the analysis according to some important firm categories: size, age, ownership and export status. Additionally, the author uses the infrastructure quality to understand its effect on firm-level efficiency levels rather than the stock of infrastructural capital. The use of aggregate indicators of infrastructure introduces an endogeneity problem which the author circumvents in this study.

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY, EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY AND INCREASE OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer González-Blanco ◽  
Mercedes Vila-Alonso ◽  
Manuel Guisado-González
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Foreign Technology ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Random Effects Models ◽  
Embedded Technology ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
License Agreements ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyzes the complementarity of foreign technology acquired under license agreements, technology embedded in machinery and equipment and increase in a company’s productive capacity. We use panel data on Brazilian manufacturing companies from the World Bank Surveys. We used the random effects models, estimated by maximum likelihood. The results indicate that foreign technology, embedded technology and increase of productive capacity have a positive and significant impact on labor productivity. The complementarity test reveals that the relationship between the two technologies analyzed is conditionally substitutive and that the relationship between each of these technologies and increase of productive capacity is conditionally complementary.

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.”

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