Who Matters at the World Bank?

Kim Moloney is an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration (with Diane Stone; OUP 2019) and from 2019-2021 was the elected chair of the Section on International and Comparative Administration within the American Society of Public Administration.

Moloney's book offers a common ground for IO scholars whose work highlights the importance of either the external or internal actors...a distinctive addition to the current debates...Moloney shows the intellectual ferment existing at the World Bank throughout its history.

• 1: The World Bank as an Organization: Peering Inside the Black Box 2: The World Bank as an Organization: Public Administration in International Organization Studies 3: Minimize the State, Free the Market (January 1980 - October 1989) 4: Reforming the Bank's Structure: Lending Incentives and "Bureaucratic Genocide" 5: Cold War Ends, Privatization Matters, and "Good Governance" Arrives (November 1989 - September 1996) 6: The "C" Word Decloaked and the State Matters (October 1996 - December 1999) 7: Two Decades Late: A Public Sector (and Governance) Strategy (January 2000 - December 2003) 8: Becoming the Bank's DNA: Governance and Anti-Corruption (January 2004 - June 2012) 9: Internal Evaluators and External Protestors: Broken, Distorted, or Ineffective? 10: PSM/PSG Sector Emergence, Policy Change, and Who Matters at the World Bank Appendix: How the World Bank Operates Postscript References Index