Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Edited by Antje Vetterlein, Professor of Global Governance, Department of Political Science, University of Münster and Tobias Schmidtke, Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany

‘In this volume on the World Bank, Vetterlein and Schmidtke provide scholars of, and policymakers in, international organizations (IOs) a great service. The Editors have assembled a stellar cast of scholars, many known for their body of work on the World Bank, “new” researchers offering excellent analyses on a range of themes and issues, as well as a number of ex-World Bank staffers. The volume explores and documents both the inside and the outside of the World Bank, discussing how policies are developed, how norms are articulated, the role of the Bank in geopolitical and inter-organizational rivalries, and its relationship to capitalism. As a “companion”, this volume does more than a hand-holding walkthrough of the World Bank. Instead, it provides a startling amount of politically-charged detail on both its internal conversation and relationship to other global actors.’

• ContentsPreface xxList of abbreviations xxiiPART I INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANION1 The World Bank: a changing organization in a changing world 2Antje Vetterlein and Tobias SchmidtkePART II SETTING THE SCENE: WORLD BANK HISTORY ANDDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES2 History and histories of the World Bank 22Michele Alacevich and Mirek Tobiáš Hošman3 Locating the World Bank: the unmaking and remaking of DevelopmentEconomics in its shifting vision 38Kate Bayliss and Ben Fine4 The World Bank and Anthropology: conflict and cooperation 51Robert K. Hitchcock5 The World Bank and Legal Studies 62Lorenzo GasbarriPART III RESEARCHING THE WORLD BANK IN INTERNATIONALRELATIONS6 Rational choice: actors, preferences and power 74Randall W. Stone7 The World Bank Inspection Panel from an institutionalist perspective 85Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira8 Constructivism, norms, and the World Bank 96Antje Vetterlein and Susan Park9 The hypocrisy of the World Bank 107Catherine E. Weaver10 US ‘hegemony’ in the World Bank 118Lisa Eitinger and Robert H. WadePART IV THE OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVE: WORLD BANKRELATIONS TO ITS ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT11 Contested terrain: World Bank projects and participatory development 130Jonathan Fox12 Revitalizing the World Bank: engagement with the private sector andscope expansion 143Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and Thomas Dörfler13 China’s relations with the World Bank: between great power anddeveloping country 154Marina Rudyak14 Let’s be friends not foes: an assessment of the strategic co-evolution ofthe World Bank and the AIIB in the face of institutional overlap 166Giuseppe Zaccaria15 Intricate interactions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund 178Matthias KrankePART V THE IMPACT PERSPECTIVE: WORLD BANK POLICY AREAS16 Environmental partnerships in the World Bank 191Teresa Kramarz and Amalie Wilkinson17 Just another brick in the wall? The changing legitimacy and centralityof the World Bank in global education 204Clara Fontdevila, Francine Menashy and Antoni Verger18 The World Bank’s work in health: continuity and change 216Shiri Noy19 Gender and development in the World Bank: an evaluation of thebusiness case for equality 227Kate Bedford20 Dam building and the World Bank: the evolving battle over partial reform 239Udisha Saklani and Barnaby Joseph Dye21 Depoliticizing the countryside? The World Bank’s role in agricultureand rural development 251Tobias Schmidtke22 Measuring corruption perceptions in Tunisia: TransparencyInternational, the Corruption Perception Index and the World Bank 263Oana B. Albu and Jonathan Murphy23 World development under monopoly capitalism 274Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden24 Responsibility avoidance in the World Bank’s approach to end poverty 286Antje Vetterlein25 Ethics and human rights in the World Bank 298Desmond McNeill26 Knowledge matters in the World Bank: the KNETworking foundationsof development policy 309Diane Stone27 Housing and the World Bank: mortgaging development 321Liam CleggPART VI THE INSIDE PERSPECTIVE: PRACTITIONERS’ VIEWS ONTHE WORLD BANK28 The origins of community-driven development: Indonesia and theKecamatan Development Program 333Scott Guggenheim29 Citizen engagement: reflections on the operationalization of a WorldBank corporate commitment 345Janelle Plummer30 Reflections on World Bank engagement in governance andanticorruption: insider and outsider perspectives 359Vinay Bhargava31 Quo Vadis? The World Bank’s role in promoting environmentalsustainability 372Steven N. SchonbergerPART VII FUTURE PERSPECTIVES: THE WORLD BANK AND ITSPOTENTIAL FOR REFORM32 The World Bank and its potential for reform: the human rights perspective 385Galit A. Sarfaty33 Invisible inequalities: how practices of classification affect outcomes inthe World Bank 396Katja Freistein34 The World Bank and shrinking civic space 407Rachel Nadelman and Ricardo Vergel Negrón35 Thinking and working apolitically 417Graham TeskeyIndex 429