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.
David Vines is Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the Director of the Research Programme on Global Economic Institutions of the British Economic and Social Research Council. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Australian National University.
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.
