Cover -- Global Institutions and Development: Framing the world? -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: power and ideas in multilateral institutions: towards an interpretative framework -- 2. The development discourse in the multilateral system -- 3. Contesting policy ideas from below -- 4. The informal sector: biography of an idea -- 5. Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes: the case of international population policy -- 6. The World Bank and the environment -- 7. Sustainable development and the World Trade Organization -- 8. Social capital and the World Bank -- 9. Hegemony, neoliberal 'good governance' and the International Monetary Fund: a Gramscian perspective -- 10. Balancing between East and West: the Asian Development Bank's policy on good governance -- 11. 'Good governance' and the Development Assistance Committee: ideas and organizational constraints -- 12. The evolution of the concept of poverty in multilateral financial institutions: the case of the World Bank -- 13. The role of ideas in the United Nations Development Programme -- 14. The power of ideas: across the constructivist/realist divide -- 15. Ideas and institutions: who is framing what? -- Bibliography -- Index.

The impact of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This book examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and, more broadly, looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse. The authors analyse why some ideas are taken up by these institutions, how the ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted or resisted. This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis. The volume explores topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment and provides detailed case studies on the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, which should be of particular interest and use to advanced undergraduate students and scholars. Morten Boas is a Researcher at Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies.

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