Overview
- Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of World Bank policies
- Demonstrates that the collaborative design of projects by the Bank and country officials is essential to their success
- Explores four core pillars of technical assistance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book analyses the World Bank’s provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day. It argues that the relational dynamics between technical assistance provider and recipient affects the legitimacy of policy norms travelling from the ‘international’ to the ‘domestic’. Beginning from the constructivist position that ‘development’ is a social construct, the author contends that successful policy movement via technical assistance depends on the recipient’s perception of the validity of policy reforms, with perception being influenced by the way those ideas and practices are presented, packaged, and transferred. In advancing this argument, Bazbauers analyses four pillars of World Bank technical assistance: technical assistance components (advisory services incorporated within lending operations), stand-alone technical assistance projects (projects designed to solely deliver technical assistance), survey missions (activities involved in measuring the development status of developing countries), and training institutes (the courses of the Economic Development Institute and World Bank Institute).
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Adrian Robert Bazbauers is Lecturer in Government and Politics in the School of Government & Policy at the University of Canberra, Australia. His research interests include the World Bank, global development, policy movement, and crises in capitalism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The World Bank and Transferring Development
Book Subtitle: Policy Movement through Technical Assistance
Authors: Adrian Robert Bazbauers
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58160-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58159-0Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86336-8Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58160-6Published: 20 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 258
Topics: International Political Economy, Development Policy, Development Economics, Development Aid, Public Policy, Banking