Dissertations / Theses: 'World Bank'

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Bademci, Emine. "World Bank&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609289/index.pdf.

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This study aims to understand and explain World Bank&rsquo
s changing approach to poverty since 1990. Established as a development institution and as one of the leading members of development community, the World Bank has nearly turned out to be a poverty alleviation institution especially from late 1990s on. This change is a reflection of a process in which the Bank shapes its approach to poverty not only in accordance with its own goals but also in the framework of what happens in wider social, economic and political spheres of which the Bank is a part as a subject that both shapes and is shaped by them to a certain extent. Consequently, a remarkable change is observed in the Bank&rsquo
s approach, and this process of change is investigated in this study in two sub-periods that are characterized by ruptures in continuity. The first period more or less between 1990 and 1997 is characterized by the Bank&rsquo
s neoliberal approach to poverty, which mainly assumes poverty as a complementary element of structural adjustment programs in countries they are implemented. The second period from 1997 up to present is characterized, on the other hand, by a &ldquo
third way&rdquo
approach to poverty which mainly assumes poverty-as-social-exclusion as an indispensable central element of a renewed hegemonic project. In this study, the traces of these ruptures and the continuity in the Bank&rsquo
s approach are followed through their reflections on Turkey by making a close reading of the Bank&rsquo
s documents about poverty in Turkey.

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Li, Li. "Bank regulation, corporate governance and bank performance around the world." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43224088.

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Li, Li, and 李莉. "Bank regulation, corporate governance and bank performance around the world." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43224088.

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Kim, Frances Yong-Min. "Giving faith back to the poor : a World Bank - civil society partnership." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3726.

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Ursekar, Mahesh T. "Rasterizing the CIA World Data Bank II." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02162010-020128/.

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Fujita, Sanae. "The World Bank, Asian Development Bank and human rights : a critical analysis." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485303.

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Hack, Adeesha. "Global lies, the World Bank, IMF and poverty." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59114.pdf.

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Doležal, Jiří. "Světová banka - vznik, organizace a kritika." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4923.

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This thesis is focused on The World Bank, it's beginning, organisation and analysis of critique. This thesis begins with reasons for foundation, historical aspects and problems. This involved the world stage before Second World War and the beginning of the IBRD. The thesis continues with a frame look at the organization, projects, finance and the World Bank position. The study shows the righteousnees of critique, analyse it and interpret it. The remainder of the thesis is concerned about the decision power in the bank and it's consequences.

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Smith, Robert. "The World Bank as a learning organization : an analysis of the Bank functions as an educational lender to the developing world." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/5fa36fa5-0612-4e92-aaca-56575d86c81c.

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Engel, Susan. "The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080424.120902/index.html.

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DIAS, CINTIA MARA MIRANDA. "THE PROCESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE WORLD BANK." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3179@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
Esse trabalho tem como objetivo descrever o processo de institucionalização de políticas ambientais no Banco Mundial.Inicialmente, a dissertação descreve a organização internacional e suas formas de atuação sobre os países membros; tanto financeiramente quanto na incorporação e na disseminação de conhecimento. Na segunda parte são particularmente enfatizadas as mudanças organizacionais ocorridas em três fases - de 1970 a 1987, de 1987 a 1992, e de 1992 em diante -, cujo objetivo foi incluir as políticas ambientais nas rotinas e processos do Bird.
This work intends to describe the process of environmental institutionalization occurred in the World Bank. Initially, the thesis describes the international organization not only as an economic resource provider to its members but also as an intellectual actor. Then, it was particularly emphasized three phases that led to organizational changes - from 1970 to 1987, from 1987 to 1992, and from 1992 on -, in order to include environmental aspects into the routines of the Bank.

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Murphy, Jonathan Richard. "The World Bank and the rise of global managerialism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615120.

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Adebjörk, Linnea. "Developing forced displacement within the World Bank - A critical discourse analysis of the forcibly displaced, host communities and the role of the World Bank." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23522.

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The forced displacement situations have, for a considerable time, emerged as an important development challenge on the international cooperation agenda. While the policies and practices of international organizations have gained much scrutiny, what they are saying and what discourses they are producing is less visible in academia. With the World Bank in focus, as an actor with a new role within the international refugee protection regime, this study seeks to explore this production and shaping of discourse. Further, the aim also seeks to examine the influence of power and hegemony in relation to discourse on this international level. Through a postcolonial perspective this study employs a Critical Discourse Analysis that presents a mainly conventional discourse of forced displacement in the context of development. The strong influence of Eurocentrism found in the analysis suggest a continued power imbalance, questioning the real benefit for the people and places of concern.

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Ike, Obiora Ngwoke Emeka. ""Nigeria: Prospects for Development:" A Response to the World Bank." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1997. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,708.

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Holtom, Duncan Robert. "Coercion and consent : the World Bank in Tanzania 1970-2001." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560558.

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Staines, Kylie. "Governing at a distance : the discourse of the World Bank /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ars782.pdf.

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Holtom, D. R. "Consent and coercion : the World Bank in Tanzania 1970-2001." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637297.

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Commentators are almost unanimous in declaring the World Bank (hereafter ‘The Bank’) ‘powerful’, yet focus upon only one dimension of the Bank’s power, its coercive power. The thesis contends that this presentation of the Bank’s ‘power’ is simultaneously over- and underdeveloped, suggesting an overweening financial (coercive) power, while overlooking the Bank’s discursive power. To address this lacuna, the thesis draws upon the work of Gramsci and Foucault to analyse the Bank’s role in shaping Tanzanian policies. In exploring the Bank’s power, the thesis is based upon a literature review, discourse analysis and a series of semi-structured interviews. This provides the basis for a reinterpretation of the Bank’s role in two crises in Tanzania (1979-1985 and 1993-1995), apparently resolved by the Bank’s coercive power. The thesis contends that, in each case, discursive change was a precondition for policy change. Conversely, in the period thereafter (1995-2001). Tanzania appears at the forefront of the Bank’s consensual reorientation. This period is also ripe for reappraisal: ‘success’ may have been facilitated by ‘consensual’ discursive power but, it is still underpinned by coercive power. The thesis concludes that the relationship between the state and Bank may be one of inter-dependence, but that the acquiescence of states to Bank-sponsored reforms cannot be reduced to a political (and economic) calculation of the need for aid to sustain the state. Discursive (‘third order’) change within government is an important precondition and cannot be bought about by coercive power alone. The Bank’s discursive power can help but remains dependent upon wider discursive forces, over which the Bank has little control. Moreover, although discursive change may be a necessary, it is not a sufficient condition to guarantee policy reforms. Even a hegemonic neo-liberal discourse would not represent the sole discourse constitutive of political elites ‘subjectivities’ and economically ‘irrational’ policies may still be pursed to secure other ‘interests’.

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Widén, Martin. "In Search of Legitimacy - The IMF, World Bank and WTO." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21224.

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In the light of rising criticism and debate over the legitimacy and accountability of the central international economic institutions, the IMF, World Bank, and WTO, some developments can be seen in how these organizations are reacting to such criticism to improve their legitimacy. The study is comparative in character and aims to explain how these organizations are changing and why this change is occurring now as well as why there are differences in how the three organizations are developing. In taking a constructivist approach to the study of international organizations as actors, it is argued that an understanding of international organizations as bureaucracies with varying degrees of autonomy will contribute to a deeper understanding of their behaviour. The role, mission, and organization of the three organizations is discussed, followed by critique relating to representation and influence for share- and stakeholders, as well as problems of transparency and accountability. Relevant changes in the organizations include increased transparency and use of evaluations, and an increased contact with NGOs. It is argued that NGOs have been an important influencing factor on this development, but also important is the fact that central states have begun to argue for similar changes. These issues have now become important questions in the organizations. The differing roles and character of the organizations has meant that they have responded differently to criticism and have been more or less open to NGOs. Their bureaucratic culture is seen to influence how these issues are interpreted in the organizations. The World Bank has developed the most while the IMF and the WTO have been slower to respond to criticism and engage with NGOs. Significantly these changes arguably amount to a change in what legitimacy means for these organizations.

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Wang, Chengmao. "The World Bank and China: investing in human resources development." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1996. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27537.

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The World Bank is the largest single source of external funding applied to the development of education in China. Beginning with loans to upgrade Chinese universities in science and technology education and research in 1981, World Bank loans now support basic education in the relatively disadvantaged provinces. To date the policy arrangements and implications of these massive injections of funds have been little explored. This thesis aims to evaluate policy issues and their implications, especially those which arise from the interaction of China’s education policy makers with the World Bank, and to explore the key aspects of Bank education activities in China. This thesis discusses World Bank education policy and lending and their implications for developing countries. It examines the overall relationship between China and the Bank, as well as the education sector in particular. The development of an educational partnership has resulted in education programs which cover a wide range of education institutions. These have had widespread impact on institutional development and underlying policy. This thesis identifies constraints in effectiveness which have influenced the fulfilment of the program’s original objectives. These relate to problems in project design and implementation, including the objectives, administrative structure, contextual relevance, and the nature of the project cycle itself. These constraints are also seen as a reflection of the policy interactions of the government, educational institutions, and Bank, understood within broad policy contexts.

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Kelemen, Shanti. "Measuring development at the World Bank: the case of microfinance." Thesis, Boston University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27687.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Zhao, Jianing Simulation. "Quantifying and Explaining Causal Effects of World Bank Aid Projects." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153907.

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In recent years, machine learning methods have enabled us to predict with good precision using large training data, such as deep learning. However, for many problems, we care more about causality than prediction. For example, instead of knowing that smoking is statistically associated with lung cancer, we are more interested in knowing that smoking is the cause of lung cancer. With causality, we can understand how the world progresses and how impacts are made on an outcome by influencing the cause. This thesis explores how to quantify the causal effects of a treatment on an observable outcome in the presence of heterogeneity. We focus on investigating the causal impacts that World Bank projects have on environmental changes. This high dimensional World Bank data set includes covariates from various sources and of different types, including time series data, such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values, temperature and precipitation, spatial data such as longitude and latitude, and many other features such as distance to roads and rivers. We estimate the heterogeneous causal effect of World Bank projects on the change of NDVI values. Based on causal tree and causal forest proposed by Athey, we described the challenges we met and lessons we learned when applying these two methods to an actual World Bank data set. We show our observations of the heterogeneous causal effect of the World Bank projects on the change of environment. as we do not have the ground truth for the World Bank data set, we validate the results using synthetic data for simulation studies. The synthetic data is sampled from distributions fitted with the World Bank data set. We compared the results among various causal inference methods and observed that feature scaling is very important to generating meaningful data and results. in addition, we investigate the performance of the causal forest with various parameters such as leaf size, number of confounders, and data size. Causal forest is a black-box model, and the results from it cannot be easily interpreted. The results are also hard for humans to understand. By taking advantage of the tree structure, the neighbors of the project to be explained are selected. The weights are assigned to the neighbors according to dynamic distance metrics. We can learn a linear regression model with the neighbors and interpret the results with the help of the learned linear regression model. in summary, World Bank projects have small impacts on the change to the environment, and the result of an individual project can be interpreted using a linear regression model learned from closed projects.

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Staples, Amy L. S. "Constructing International Identity: The World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization, 1945-1965." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393196164.

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Taylor, Marcus. "The World Bank, global accumulation and the antinomies of capitalist development." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59458/.

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This thesis presents an investigation into the changing institutional form and policy content of the World Bank over the last two decades. It does this by relating the former to the contradictory trajectory of capitalist development at a global level. It is suggested that the noted transitions in the World Bank at the close of the millennium represent a series of reactive mediations to the unanticipated results of neoliberal-style reform. The latter are manifest in uneven development on a global scale, recurrent crises across the global South, and the expansion of local and global struggles that target the limits of development in its capitalist fonn. To build this argument the thesis examines the contradictory essence of capitalist development; the position of the World Bank as an international organisation within the context of global capitalist social relations; and the nature of Bank policy prescription in the 1980s and 1990s. Additionally, the thesis concretises this analysis through a case study of the Chilean experience of neoliberal-style reforms that closely mirror the World Bank's prescription of "best practice".

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Taboada, Alvaro G. "The Impact of Changes in Bank Ownership Structure around the World." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1216049589.

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Banks, Nico. "Diagnosing and Correcting Problems with Project Selection at the World Bank." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1652.

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In 1992, the World Bank Group’s success rate - as evaluated the Bank’s unit, the Independent Evaluation Group - had substantially declined. In response, the Bank formed a task force to determine what factors had caused the decline. The Task Force report detailed several problems with the Bank’s project selection and implementation process. A review of the report and other literature concludes that projects often fail to achieve their goals because of overly optimistic ex-ante appraisals, and project delays. The project selection and design process should attempt to mitigate the risk of project delay by ensuring that financing is available on time, site conditions are stable, and the supply of materials is adequate. A regression analysis based on projects implemented in the 21st century investigates how project success has changed since the report, and how the Bank can continue to improve its project selection process. It concludes that the Bank’s projects are more successful when implemented in countries with a political environment conducive to businesses. In addition, projects experience more delays and are less successful when the borrowing country is responsible for funding a large percentage of the project.

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Harrison, Brennan Kate Geraldine McClymont. "The world bank and the rhetoric of social accountability in Ethiopia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4d3d8e55-086c-4b0a-b1fa-9925bf429437.

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Following the controversial Federal election in Ethiopia in 2005, in which the ruling party regained power amidst allegations of state-sanctioned violence, the World Bank, along with other bilateral donors, stopped providing Direct Budget Support. In 2006, the Bank formed an agreement with the Ethiopian Government for an International Development Association (IDA) grant for the Protection of Basic Services. The project design for the grant was one of the most complex in the Bank's operations worldwide and featured a component for the implementation of social accountability, financed by a Multi-donor Trust Fund. This thesis critically examines the evolution within the Bank of this policy of 'social accountability' in relation to aid. Situated within the literature on the re-politicisation of aid, it questions the plausibility of implementing such a policy in Ethiopia where the dominant party was seeking ways to extend its power over society. Fieldwork for this thesis was conducted at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and in Ethiopia: in Addis Ababa, and in the region of Tigray. The evidence assembled in this thesis is drawn from 135 semi-structured interviews and a range of primary source documents. Using an historical method, this thesis argues that the primary purpose of social accountability was rhetorical and the deployment of this language by actors was cynical. Not only did donors have a limited purchase on a complex social reality in Ethiopia, but they also tolerated the misuse of social accountability by the dominant party to extend the power of the state. What was produced in Ethiopia was radically outside of what donors imagined, although they were remarkably relaxed about this fact. This thesis challenges the conventional assumptions that actors in aid negotiations are rational and that aid programs involve the imposition of rationalising high-modernist schemes.

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Lafontaine, Alain Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Environmental aspects of sustainable development : the role of the World Bank." Ottawa, 1990.

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Hinton, James Alistair. "The development of the World Bank as an autonomous legal system." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7837/.

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This thesis positions the World Bank Inspection Panel at the centre of a World Bank legal system. International legal positivism can no longer explain the governance role and actions that the World Bank is undertaking and, instead, systems theory is put forward as an alternative tool of legal understanding. The conceptual tool of systems theory, as a tool of legal understanding, is analysed and constructed to provide a mechanism via which the Bank's behaviour can be framed in terms of law. The essentialist analysis of systems theory identifies, inter alia, the need for a Court-like body ruling upon the legal/illegal binary communication divide as being a required element for the evolution of a normative system into a legal system. The World Bank Inspection Panel is put forward as this Court-like body and its evolution identified as triggering a formative change in the understanding of how the World Bank operates. This thesis concludes that this shift into a legal system demands a new understanding of the problems and issues that confront the Bank today. Rather than framing its issues in terms of legal positivism, issues such as the Bank's democratic accountability, conditionality and mission creep should instead be framed in terms of systems theory.

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Boudreau, Ryan M. "The Role of the IMF and the World Bank in Revolutions in the Developing World: Nicaragua, South Africa, and Nepal." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1341.

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Thesis advisor: Robert Murphy
Much has been said, often negatively, of the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in the international system. Usually these criticisms focus on financial advice rooted in neoliberal ideology rather than in conditions within a given economy, or on the strict conditions attached to IMF or World Bank loans. The discussion of the role of these institutions often does not extend into the discussion of revolutions. This study seeks to draw connections between IMF or World Bank involvement in developing states and the revolutions that occurred within them. Using John Foran’s model for revolution in the Third World, the study aims to determine whether conditionality constitutes a “world-systemic opening”—a change in the international system that allows the structural inadequacies of a state to fall to the pressures of the society beneath it. This examination reaffirms the notion that revolutions are complex processes with roots in a state’s structures and its placement in the international system. The revolutionary consequences of IMF and World Bank involvement is not limited to conditionality, however; in the three situations studied, conditionality was limited, despite rules to the contrary. Throughout these revolutions, the work of the IMF and World Bank is pervasive, especially in economic policy advising and the extending of loans crucial to the survival of the old economic system. More often than not it is the withdrawal of funding due to political oppression or instability than it is conditionality that constitutes a world-systemic opening
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: International Studies

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com, Burgessmj@yahoo, and Madeline Jane Burgess. "Interrogating the World Banks Policy on Innovative Delivery for Higher Education." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070824.134633.

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Over the past thirty years, the World Bank has intensified its activities relating to education in developing countries. Notable developments in the World Banks policy on education include promotion of innovative delivery, which refers to the use of new and existing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education. The World Bank claims that the unique characteristics of ICTs have the potential to produce new forms of delivery in higher education that can overcome existing barriers to education and facilitate student-centred learning (World Bank, 1999, 2005). Many forms of innovative delivery, such as distance education and open learning, are not new forms of instruction. However, promotion of innovative delivery as a global priority for education in developing countries is new. In this thesis, I interrogate the World Banks assumptions concerning innovative delivery as expressed in their landmark policy statement on education, the 1999 Education Sector Strategy Report (ES99) (World Bank, 1999). I focus on the assumptions that underlie views put forward in the ES99 on the nature of technology and its role in education, the role of innovative delivery in overcoming existing barriers to education, and the potential of innovative delivery to facilitate student-centred learning. A central aim of this thesis was to better understand the socio-cultural and pedagogical issues that may arise when these assumptions are put into practice in different cultural contexts. This was achieved by comparing the assumptions put forward in the ES99 with the reported perceptions of, attitudes toward, and use of ICTs by students and lecturers from three different cultural contexts. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used to gather detailed empirical data on end-users perceptions, attitudes to and use of online technologies at universities in Australia, Malaysia and the United States. The findings suggested that across all three cultural contexts, respondents attitudes were not consistent with the World Banks technocratic view of innovative delivery. Moreover, the findings cast doubt on the extent to which technology-mediated education can overcome existing barriers to education and facilitate a student-centred approach to education. I conclude by suggesting that the World Bank needs to adopt a more questioning stance toward the potential effectiveness of innovative delivery. Other findings point to the contextual nature of technology adoption and the pedagogical implications of this mode of delivery across cultural contexts.

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Tastan, Ozlem Zehra. "A Critique Of Poverty Alleviation As Social Policy:the World Bank&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2002. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606614/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims to critically elaborate the World Bank&rsquo
s Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP) in Turkey for poverty alleviation. Within this context, the thesis argues that the content and means of social policy are re-defined on and around the theme of &lsquo
fight against poverty&rsquo
which is to be realized through (social) risk management. In this sense, there exists a paradigmatic shift in conceptualization of social policy from income re-distributive mechanisms to risk management proposed to achieve through safety-nets and market mechanism, specifically, small-scale income generating activities and investment in human capital. Hence, it is the core claim of this thesis that the strategy proposed by the World Bank for the social policy in Turkish context results in operationalisation of social policy as a means of both political crisis management, and establishing market hegemony in the distribution of welfare which means deepening the dependency on market.

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Kaler, Amy. "Basic education and the World Bank : crisis and response in the 1980s." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59869.

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Basic education is a crucial, often underfunded component of national development. Theories based on basic needs both illustrate the links between education and other goals associated with the elimination of poverty and define the types of education needed to maximise these links and advance these goals. Third World progress towards basic educational goals, as measured by first level enrollment, literacy and resources available to education, has been slowed particularly as a result of economic pressures. Measures taken by international organisations to relieve these pressures have not adequately protected the poor; and in some cases have adversely affected the maintenance of systems of basic education.
The World Bank, as the world's largest development organisation and as one concerned with economic adjustment, is changing its policies to adapt to this situation. (These changes are taking place in an institution noted for being more oriented to economic growth than to human needs.) There is, however, room for cautious optimism that trends within and without the Bank may converge to bring basic education to a higher place on the development agenda.

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Bridgeman, Theresa. "Accountable to whom? : The World Bank and its Inspection Panel, 1994-2004." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539944.

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Everett, Glyn. "Governing the knowledge economy : the World Bank as a gatekeeper for development." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/be1d6fb9-022f-4dfa-9db8-d9abc418c3c7.

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Loots, Josua. "The World Bank and Human Rights : the potential of the Safeguard Policies." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/36773.

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Ragazzo, Luca <1996&gt. "Urban Development And The World Bank: Historical Perspective And Present-Day Programs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20140.

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In the global landscape of the 21st century, international institutions occupy a distinctive spot, taking in different influences that culminate in specific policy decisions. The World Bank falls within this group of organizations, presenting itself with the main goals of putting an end to extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, intended especially for developing and least-developed countries. In order to achieve the stated mission, the Bank operates in several fields by funding and assisting development projects alongside national and sub-national governments, private sector investors and other international institutions. One of the areas that requires massive interventions is represented by urban development, which is a central theme in many countries undergoing significant migration flows and economic growth. The role of development agencies in this field is mainly to help provide basic services and infrastructures that can improve the well-being of the urban population, such as through the building of affordable housing and the enhancement of the urban environment resilience to disasters and climate change. The Bank, throughout its history, has changed its approach in undertaking certain projects as far as structure of the interventions and financial commitment, based on the direction established by the upper management of the institution and the main external influences. Execution and final outcomes are often the products of the collective effort provided by the parties involved in the projects, so that the possible shortcomings can be attributed to different entities. Programs conducted in the urban field have contributed to general progress in some areas since the middle of the 20th century, but the projects undertaken by the Bank continue to be scrutinized and judged based on the positive and negative nuances that define them.

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Yeh, Ahling. "Gender, Development and the World Bank - A Critical Discourse Analysis of women in World Development Reports between 1998 - 2018." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22588.

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The purpose of this study is to look at how women are represented in neoliberal discourses of development, if there has been a change on representation of women over the last three decades and how these discourses reflect broader developments in gender equality. The World Bank has been selected to serve as an instance of neoliberal development discourse and one World Development Report (WDR) from each decade is analysed. The theoretical perspectives include discourse analysis and the three Western main approaches to feminist development theory; Women In Development (WID), Woman And Development (WAD) and Gender And Development (GAD); the methodology is related to critical discourse analysis. The analysis suggests that the Bank discourse on women has changed from a predominant WID approach in the end of the 90s where women were mainly depicted as passive and poor objects, and moved closer towards a GAD approach in the latest WDR that constructs women as empowered agents with aspirations. Despite changes in Bank language use over time, the underlying message has remained the same; women are discursively framed as a means to enhance economic efficiency. The discursive changes in the analysed WDRs have to a large extent followed the global developments on discourses on women and gender equality, of which the Bank itself is a key influencer. The discursive construction of women in development, structured around efficiency and economic growth thus sustains, rather than challenges, the hegemonic power structures that sustain gender inequalities. The practical consequences of the current development discourse of constructing women as economic actors without addressing the root causes to their subordination will most likely translate into an increase in the workload of women on the ground while gender inequality and poverty continue to exist.

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Virtue, Tony. "Towards the sustainability of microfinance services: the role of client impact monitoring." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Business, 2008. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00006289/.

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[Abstract]: Over the last few decades microfinance has become an integral part of the economic development of the less developed countries with regional governments, themultilateral donor agencies such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and other donor organisations investing in the industry to build its capacity andwiden the outreach. Further, the World Bank has highlighted the need to help the poor achieve self-sustainability as much more than just a social issue. In fact, in their view, the long-term financial growth of the Developed countries will be largely determined by the expansion of the Third World as their future client base. Those who are interested in economic development in the less developed countries strongly believe that microfinance will be an effective tool of alleviation of poverty and developing prosperity for the poor. For this reason microfinance is considered as one of the effective way of achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Central to the success of microfinance is the distribution of capital from the wealthy to the poor in a manner which encourages accountability and responsibility from therecipient, while at the same time allowing donors to see appropriate stewardship of their funds. This is measured through the achievement of financial independence ofthe group being studied. The role of implementing agencies in facilitating this efficient and accountable transfer of capital is seen to be crucial to the ongoing development of microfinance. The interrelation between donors and these agencies requires a high degree of trust and mutual accountability, in many cases built up through years of hard work and experimentation.The policy framework and legislative environment for microfinance is still evolving. For instance some countries are still developing the regulatory environment to monitor the transparency of the industry. Furthermore, there are some growing concerns on the level of efficiency of the delivery of microfinance in making an impact on projects or at least making an impact on alleviation of poverty. In order to contribute to the latter, this study investigates a major microfinance operation in thePhilippines to examine whether it is consistent with the wider international practices, particularly in achieving the MDGs.The study uses a survey tool developed by the donor agency to monitor the quantitative and qualitative aspect of the microfinance operation and benchmark them against similar operations within the Asian region. The results show that, in the majority of cases, the Philippines operation has outperformed their counterparts. However, there is considerable room for improvement to maintain the sustainability of the operation.These experiences of successes and failures need to be recorded and delineated to build on existing achievements and support an environment geared towards substantial growth in the funding of microfinance in the future. It is the intention of this study to highlight these experiences and draw attention to the very real achievements currently being experienced through some effective microfinanceprojects.

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Collins, Christopher Steven. "Higher education and knowledge for nation-state development the role of the World Bank and U.S. universities in poverty reduction in the developing world /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872057141&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Carroll, Toby. "The politics of the world bank's socio-institutional neoliberalism /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070717.113619.

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Vera, Leonardo. "Stabilisation and structural adjustment in Latin America : a reconstruction from Post-Keynesian and structuralist perspectives." Thesis, University of East London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264408.

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Sen, Bikash Bhusan. "Pisciculture in West Dinajpur District : an appraisal with special reference to world bank assisted inland fisheries project." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1116.

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Battikha, Anne-Marie. "Structural Adjustment and the Environment: Impacts of the World Bank and IMF Conditional Loans on Developing Countries." Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37092.

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IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) include conditional loans granted to developing countries to help them repay their debts while requiring them to undergo specific economic and political reforms. The most common SAP measures include the devaluation of currency, the reduction of public sector size and activities, the removal of subsidies, and the liberalization of trade. While the social impacts of these policies have already been acknowledged and to some degree mitigated, this paper examines their environmental impacts. The various impacts of structural adjustment on the environment are discussed in the framework of four main aspects of SAPs: export promotion, trade liberalization, the shrinking of the state, and increased poverty.

This paper argues that the macroeconomic policies promoted by structural adjustment have several direct and indirect impacts on the environment of borrowing countries. Further, without careful consideration of the environmental impacts, degradation is often the result. However, the fundamentally different perspectives and values on debt and development used by the IMF and World Bank and their critics may explain the differences in their conclusions on adjustment. As the IMF and the World Bank are currently experiencing a shift in the way they interact with borrowing countries to emphasize poverty reduction and country ownership of policies, it is possible that this will allow for more systematic and integrated approaches to addressing debt as well as long-term development. In order to minimize unintended harm to the natural resource base of these countries, economic, social and environmental issues should be addressed together.
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Iloanya, Adaorah Onaedo. "An analysis of the World Bank’s Development Knowledge : the case of South Africa’s partnership with the World Bank 2008 - 2012." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46065.

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This study is situated within an International Political Economy (IPE) approach and centres on an analysis of the World Bank’s ‘development knowledge’. This is a term used in the dissertation to describe the pool of knowledge and understanding linked to development which the World Bank produces. The study also incorporates a case study of the World Bank’s development partnership with South Africa, particularly through the 2008 - 2012 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS). The World Bank- South Africa partnership is characterised by a knowledge sharing approach. Importantly, the study aims to provide an understanding of the ideology and norms that underpin the World Bank’s development knowledge. Reviewed literature points toward a preferred neo-liberal ideology of development knowledge in the Bank; this is the departure point for this study’s analysis. The study is based on two levels of analysis, examined through a critical theoretical framework and discourse analysis as a methodological tool. The first level of analysis considers the structural power dynamics in the international arena which influence the ideology of development knowledge in the Bank. This study categorises these power dynamics as internal and external levers of power. The former has more to do with the Bank’s financial clout and intellectual leadership, while the latter considers the influence of powerful states, particularly the United States of America (USA), over the production of development knowledge in the World Bank. The dissertation suggests that these levers of power establish the transmission mechanisms which diffuse the ideas of powerful actors into the development knowledge of the Bank, while limiting the influence of less powerful actors. The second level of analysis, which is the South Africa case study, aims to ascertain the presence or lack of a ‘normative convergence’ on development ideals between the World Bank and South Africa. Normative convergence means shared or unified beliefs relating to how development is conceptualised between South Africa and the World Bank. The aim of this level of analysis is to identify how the presence or lack of normative convergence bears upon the efficacy of the Bank’s knowledge sharing approach in the case of South Africa. The study concludes that there is evidence which points to a neo-liberal paradigm of development within the World Bank and South Africa. A normative convergence on development ideals between the World Bank and South Africa thus exists.
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Albayrak, Turgay. "An Institutional Assessment Of World Bank Projects For Effective Provision Of Urban Services." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610302/index.pdf.

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The main aim of this thesis is to assess the institutional arrangements shaped with a perspective of &ldquo
good governance&rdquo
in provision of urban services with reference to the shift of the World Bank&rsquo
s approach to the problem of poverty after 1990s. In spite of the change in the World Bank&rsquo
s perspective, there remain significant problems related with the expected reflection of these institutional arrangements to the practice through certain process and stages of the implemented projects. Regarding this fact, thesis seeks to determine not only the reasons of these problems but also ways for solving them to attain effective provision of urban services. In this thesis, also, as an institutional comparative assessment, some implemented service projects of the World Bank in Turkey are examined by stressing on the institutional dimension of the project objectives. At last, thesis makes suggestions about the unsuccessful dimensions and reveals the roles of institutions in the achievement of projects by using the institutional assessment method for the institutions whose institutional capacity has been developed or the institutions created within the World Bank projects implemented in Turkey. This will be achieved by the evaluations on projects with the outputs of institutional assessment and the research on factors for the achievement of the projects. The results obtained with this thesis study are noteworthy for the evaluation with a new perspective of the projects implemented in Turkey not only by the World Bank but also by other international institutions quite increased in number in recent years.

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Andersson, Sabina. "The World Bank : A qualitative content analysis of anti-corruption strategies 1997 – 2006." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kriminologiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63379.

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The World Bank is a large organization that has been an influential actor in world politics for decades. The foundation of the work in the World Bank was stipulated in the Articles of Agreement, negotiated in 1944, which concluded that the purpose of the Bank was to finance postwar reconstruction and investment in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to examine how the problem of corruption is framed in the anti-corruption strategies produced by the World Bank, since corruption has received a growing interest from the World Bank, as well as the world in general during the last decade. This essay will analyze how the World Bank create and use their knowledge regarding corruption. This will be performed by studying how the anti-corruption strategies of the World Bank have evolved from the 1997 Publication “Helping Countries Combat Corruption: A World Bank Strategy” the revised governance strategy publication “Reforming Public Institutions and Strengthening Governance: A World Bank Strategy” from 2000, followed by the latest strategy paper “Strengthening World Bank Group Engagement on Governance and Anti-Corruption” published in the year of 2006. The hypothesis and theory that the analysis is built upon is of a social-constructive nature, and the policy documents will be analyzed through the theory and method of claims-making, which highlights how power asymmetries and collective identity claims is used to give certain claims validity. The study will also look for the possible existence of a political bias, which often willingly or unwillingly shapes the views of individuals as well as organization. The results showed that there has only been a small change in working methods within the anti-corruption unit at the World Bank during the last ten years, despite significant scholarly criticism against the suggested strategies and despite poor results. The aspects the strategies had been changed in did however indicate a possibility that it has followed a politicized general western/northern trend of liberalization which has become the norm for how economic reforms should be stipulated.

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Wunsch, Jennifer. "Computer mediated communication and international development, an institutional analysis of world bank initiatives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ30878.pdf.

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Lehane, Narelle. "The apostrophe effect : the World Bank and the environment in the 1990's /." Title page and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl522.pdf.

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Gowlland, Alix. "The environmental accountability of the World Bank to third party non-state actors." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270697.

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Kranke, Matthias. "The politics of collaborative global governance : organisational positioning in IMF-World Bank collaboration." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/101269/.

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This thesis studies the collaborative activities of two of the most prominent international organisations of the contemporary era, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Drawing on ninety-five interviews with organisational officials and other policy actors, as well as an analysis of key documents, I argue that competing normative expectations, especially from their membership, induce the Bretton Woods institutions to collaborate where necessary and remain distinctive as much as possible. However, regular collaboration tends to make organisations more similar to each other. The IMF and the World Bank resolve this challenge to their procedural legitimacy by employing symbolic actions as signals of distinctiveness while continuing inter-organisational collaboration. Symbolic reforms (and, sometimes, less costly alternatives) allow them to claim policy niches for the purpose of organisational differentiation. I develop this argument in case studies of IMF- World Bank collaboration in three areas: (1) crisis lending, (2) financial sector surveillance and (3) concessional lending and debt relief. Through the analysis of the collaborative activities between two influential international organisations, the research in this thesis contributes novel insights into the cultural underpinnings of the Bretton Woods institutions. The analysis extends constructivist accounts of international organisations by suggesting that contemporary notions of their agency are rooted in shared norms about what these organisations should do or should not do.

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