Banking on the Poor : The World Bank and World Poverty
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"Under Robert Ayres's microscope, the World Bank emerges with the kind of low-key-credit that a cautious reformist intends as high praise. His book is thorough, his approach measured: there are no conspiracies, no monoliths, no big failures (and no big successes, either). It sounds quite plausible, and it is." -- Rupert Pennant-Rea, The Washington Post
"In producing what will probably be the definitive book on the changing role of the bank during the McNamara years, Mr. Ayres, a Fellow with the Overseas Development Council, interviewed some 300 officials and obtained access to a considerable number of internal documents of the bank which is, as he observes, 'not a noticeably open institution.'
"He describes internal and external political constraints on the World Bank as it developed specific poverty-oriented projects in rural and urban areas worldwide under Mr. McNamara, and speculates that, under its new president, A. W. Clausen... the World Bank is likely to become more conservative. " -- Carl Marcy, The New York Times Book Review
Book Description
Banking on the Poor traces the evolution of Robert McNamara's poverty-oriented redirections at the World Bank from 1968 to 1981.
Banking on the Poor : The World Bank and World Poverty,Robert L. Ayres,The MIT Press,0262510286,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Finance,World Bank,Business & Economics / Finance
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