Christopher L. Gilbert is Full Professor in the Department of Finance and Financial Sector Management at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is also Visiting Professor of Economics at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London.
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
Introduction Joseph E. Stiglitz; 1. The World Bank: an overview of some
major issues Christopher L. Gilbert and David Vines; Part I. The World
Bank's Structure: The Bank as an Institution: 2. Positioning the World Bank
Christopher L. Gilbert, Andrew Powell and David Vines; 3. The World Bank
and poverty reduction: past, present and future Ravi Kanbur and David
Vines; 4. Why the World Bank should be involved in development research Lyn
Squire; 5. The challenges of multilateralism and governance Ngaire Woods;
Part II. The Effectiveness of World Bank Assistance: 6. The World Bank and
structural adjustment: lessons from the 1980s Francisco H. G. Ferreira and
Louise C. Keely; 7. The implications of foreign aid fungibility for
development assistance Shantayanan Devarajan and Vinya Swaroop; 8. Aid,
growth, the incentive regime and poverty reduction Craig Burnside and David
Dollar; 9. How policies and institutions affect project performance:
microeconomic evidence on aid, policies and investment productivity
Jonathan Isham and Daniel Kaufmann; 10. Increasing aid effectiveness in
Africa? The World Bank and sector investment programmes Stephen Jones; 11.
The World Bank, conditionality and the Comprehensive Development Framework
Raul Hopkins, Andrew Powell, Amlan Roy and Christopher L. Gilbert; 12.
Conditionality, dependence and coordination: three current debates in aid
policy Paul Collier; Index.
