The World Bank Policies: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't.

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Title: The World Bank Policies: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't.
Language: English
Authors: de Moura Castro, Claudio
Source: Comparative Education. Nov 2002 38(4):387-399.
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2002
Document Type: Journal Articles
Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Banking, Educational Policy, Ideology, Institutional Environment, Policy Formation
ISSN: 0305-0068
Abstract: A former employee of the World Bank discusses the logic behind multilateral development banks and how they operate, bank ideology and the nature of policy formation, educational and other reforms as loan conditions, the inability of development banks to enforce implementation of their policies in countries receiving loans, and whether the banks learn from their mistakes. (SV)
Entry Date: 2003
Accession Number: EJ659860
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:A former employee of the World Bank discusses the logic behind multilateral development banks and how they operate, bank ideology and the nature of policy formation, educational and other reforms as loan conditions, the inability of development banks to enforce implementation of their policies in countries receiving loans, and whether the banks learn from their mistakes. (SV)
ISSN:0305-0068