Controlling the World Bank and IMF : shareholders, stakeholders, and the politics of concessional lending / by Liam Clegg.

Author
  • Clegg, Liam. [author] [aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut]
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  • 1st ed. 2013.
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  • London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2013
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1 online resource (229 p.)
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  • 1-349-44575-4
  • 1-137-27455-7
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  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Reproduction available: Electronic reproduction Palgrave Connect
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  • Liam Clegg is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York, UK, where he previously held an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Previously, Liam was a Visiting Research Fellow at American University, USA, and at the American Political Science Association Centennial Centre, USA, where he carried out his research into the World Bank and IMF's concessional lending activities. Liam has had work exploring these areas published in a range of journals, including New Political Economy and Review of International Organizations.
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Contents
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Locating shareholders and stakeholders at the World Bank and IMF""; ""1.2 Models of control in international organisations: The rationalist pathway""; ""1.3 Models of control in international organisations: The constructivist pathway""; ""1.4 Integrating the rationalist and constructivist models""; ""1.5 Opening the door to normative judgement son the politics of control""; ""1.6 Overview of the book""
  • ""2 Shareholder Control and the Rise of Poverty Reduction at the World Bank""""2.1 Performance measurement and norm change at the World Bank""; ""2.2 A brief history of the International Development Association""; ""2.3 Poverty reduction as a monitoring and legitimation device""; ""2.4 Filling the world with poverty indicators""; ""2.5 The results agenda and the internal â€?battlefield of knowledgeâ€?""; ""3 Shareholder Conflicts and the Rise of Social Spending at the IMF""; ""3.1 Money, information, and control at the IMF""; ""3.2 Constructing the Fundâ€?s balance-of-payments expertise""
  • ""3.3 Stepping into concessional lending""""3.4 Launching structural adjustment, exceeding the mandate?""; ""3.5 Making the Fund into a long-term development partner""; ""4 The World Bank and the Reconstruction of Stakeholder Engagement""; ""4.1 Agents, ideas, and the entrance of stakeholders into the World Bank""; ""4.2 The invisibility of stakeholders in the Bankâ€?s early years""; ""4.3 The evolution of direct stakeholder engagement in project lending""; ""4.4 Policy-based lending and stakeholder control as a domestic governance tool""
  • ""5 Apolitical Economy and the Limits to Stakeholder Engagement at the IMF""""5.1 The exclusionary power of expertise at the IMF""; ""5.2 Normalising the practice of stakeholder disengagement""; ""5.3 The rise of the disciplinary stakeholder""; ""5.4 Slowly expanding direct stakeholder input into operational processes""; ""6 Conclusion""; ""6.1 Shareholder control: Review of key findings""; ""6.2 Stakeholder control: Review of key findings""; ""6.3 Navigating the shareholderâ€?stakeholder dichotomy""; ""6.4 Post-crisis developments at the World Bank""
  • ""6.5 Post-crisis developments at the IMF""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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  • Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.

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