The Lending Policy Of The World Bank In The 1970s

Author : Bettina S. Hurni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000302936

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The Lending Policy Of The World Bank In The 1970s by Bettina S. Hurni Pdf

This pilot study - the first to analyze the World Bank’s lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade - concentrates on the Bank’s shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to “new style” projects, especially in the area of rural development, and on the resulting changes in lending criteria in the 1970s. Basing her conclusions on two years of independent research and access to confidential materials, Dr. Hurni evaluates the World Bank’s work; gives a good overall view of current development problems - including implementation of the “growth with equity” strategy - and their possible solutions; shows the effects of the new development goals in borrower and creditor countries, as well as on the institutional decision-making process; and offers recommendations for improvement of the Bank’s evaluation methodology and operational structures. She presents a clear picture of the positive and negative aspects of the World Bank as a multilateral investment model and shows its bridge-building function in the great North-South controversy.

Author : Robert M. Buckley,Jerry Kalarickal
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821365786

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Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending by Robert M. Buckley,Jerry Kalarickal Pdf

"As England's Industrial Revolution started the process of urbanization that has since characterized development throughout the world, a poet worried about the ""dark satanic mills"" that were such a fundamental part of this revolution. However, despite his misgivings, he also suggested that it was necessary for societies to arm themselves with ""chariots of fire"" and other weapons so that they could master this process. In a somewhat more prosaic poetic vein World Bank President Robert McNamara launched the bank's shelter assistance programs saying that 'If cities do not begin to deal more constructively with poverty, poverty may begin to deal more destructively with cities.' These concerns would appear to have even more resonance today as the population of cities in developing countries increasing by unprecedented levels of more than 1 billion people per year for the next 15 years. This magnitude suggests the scale of the increase in the investment in shelter needed to meet the needs of this growing population."

Author : Bettina S. Hurni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Loans
ISBN : 0367293501

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The Lending Policy of the World Bank in the 1970s by Bettina S. Hurni Pdf

This pilot study - the first to analyze the World Bank's lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade - concentrates on the Bank's shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to âeoenew styleâe projects, especially in the area of rural development, and on the resulting changes in lending criteria in the 1970s. Basing her conclusions on two years of independent research and access to confidential materials, Dr. Hurni evaluates the World Bank's work; gives a good overall view of current development problems - including implementation of the âeoegrowth with equityâe strategy - and their possible solutions; shows the effects of the new development goals in borrower and creditor countries, as well as on the institutional decision-making process; and offers recommendations for improvement of the Bank's evaluation methodology and operational structures. She presents a clear picture of the positive and negative aspects of the World Bank as a multilateral investment model and shows its bridge-building function in the great North-South controversy.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464814969

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Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 by World Bank Pdf

Over a decade has passed since the collapse of the U.S. investment bank, Lehman Brothers, marked the onset of the largest global economic crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis revealed major shortcomings in market discipline, regulation and supervision, and reopened important policy debates on financial regulation. Since the onset of the crisis, emphasis has been placed on better regulation of banking systems and on enhancing the tools available to supervisory agencies to oversee banks and intervene speedily in case of distress. Drawing on ten years of data and analysis, Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 provides evidence on the regulatory remedies adopted to prevent future financial troubles, and sheds light on important policy concerns. To what extent are regulatory reforms designed with high-income countries in mind appropriate for developing countries? What has been the impact of reforms on market discipline and bank capital? How should countries balance the political and social demands for a safety net for users of the financial system with potentially severe moral hazard consequences? Are higher capital requirements damaging to the flow of credit? How should capital regulation be designed to improve stability and access? The report provides a synthesis of what we know, as well as areas where more evidence is still needed. Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 is the fifth in a World Bank series. The accompanying website tracks financial systems in more than 200 economies before, during, and after the global financial crisis (http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/gfdr) and provides information on how banking systems are regulated and supervised around the world (http://www.worldbank.org/en/research/brief/BRSS).

Author : Devesh Kapur,John P. Lewis,Richard C. Webb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815720122

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The World Bank by Devesh Kapur,John P. Lewis,Richard C. Webb Pdf

This effort constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on the history of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank. Author-editors John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur chronicle the evolution of this institution and offer insights into its successes, failures, and prospects for the future. The result of their intense labors is an invaluable resource for other researchers and a fascinating study in its own right. The work is divided into two volumes. The first is organized thematically and examines the critical events and policy issues in the World Bank's development over the last fifty years. Chapter topics include poverty alleviation, structural adjustment lending, environmental programs, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), and the evolution of the Bank as an institution. The second volume contains case studies written by experts with experience in the various regions in which the Bank operates. There are chapters on the Bank's activities in Korea, Mexico, Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. Volume 2 also contains essays on the World Bank's relationship with the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, and its partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By special arrangement, the authors have had wide-ranging access to confidential documents at the World Bank, making this work a unique source of information on the internal workings of this critical institution. They have also drawn on extensive interviews with current and past Bank officials. Moreover, publication could not be more timely, coming as it does when many in the development community and in the U.S. Congress are questioning the Bank's track record and even its reason for existence. The World Bank: Its First Half Century will be of great interest not only to development practitioners but also to students of international relations, development economics, and global finance. During the course of the project, John P. Lewis and Richard Webb were nonresident senior fellows, and Devesh Kapur was a program associate, in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Author : M. Ayhan Kose,Peter Nagle,Franziska Ohnsorge,Naotaka Sugawara
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815454

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Global Waves of Debt by M. Ayhan Kose,Peter Nagle,Franziska Ohnsorge,Naotaka Sugawara Pdf

The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.

Author : John Prior Lewis,Ishan Kapur
Publisher : Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0669905550

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The World Bank Group, Multilateral Aid, and the 1970s by John Prior Lewis,Ishan Kapur Pdf

Study, based on a series of lectures on the World Bank and on multilateral aid to the developing countries - covers the challenges of the 1970's and the present institutional framework, the determination of priorities and resource allocation, terms of aid and flexibility of international borrowing, efforts to influence recipient performance, the external debt problem, relations with other international organizations, etc. Bibliography pp. 149 to 158, references and statistical tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Access to Finance
ISBN : 9780195204827

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World Development Report, 1985 by Anonim Pdf

This report focuses on the contribution that international capital makes to economic development. While the report pays close attention to the events of the recent past, it also places the use of foreign capital in a broader and longer-term perspective. Using such a perspective, the report shows how countries at different stages of development have used external finance productively; how the institutional and policy environment affects the volume and composition of financial flows to developing countries; and how the international community has dealt with financial crises. This report concludes that the developing countries will have a continuing need for external finance. It demonstrates that many of the policies required to attract external finance and promote economic growth are either being implemented or planned already.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195211235

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Assessing Aid by Anonim Pdf

Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

Author : Shahid Yusuf
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195211245

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Entering the 21st Century by Shahid Yusuf Pdf

Known as the standard reference for international economic data, the twenty-second annual edition of the World Development Report provides a set of Selected World Development Indicators as an appendix, presenting social and economic statistics for more than 200 countries.

Author : World Bank. Country Economics Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035116578

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Adjustment Lending Policies for Sustainable Growth by World Bank. Country Economics Department Pdf

Author : Ian Malcolm David Little
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195208919

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Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment by Ian Malcolm David Little Pdf

Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment reviews the macroeconomic experiences of eighteen developing countries from 1974 to 1989. The authors address why the experiences and policy reactions have differed among the countries, and how their individual growth rates were affected by these policy reactions.

Author : Jane Harrigan,Paul Mosley,John Toye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136168970

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Aid and Power - Vol 1 by Jane Harrigan,Paul Mosley,John Toye Pdf

Book is definitive in its area and one of the most significant titles in development economics in the 1990's Sold in total nearly 3,000 copies of the first edition Authors are very prestigious: Mosley is full Professor at Reading, Toye is Head of the prestigious Institute of Development Studies

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464804717

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Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 by The World Bank Pdf

Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 focuses on the ability of financial systems to sustainably extend the maturity of financial contracts for private agents. The challenges of extending the maturity structure of finance are often considered to be at the core of effective, sustainable financial development. Sustainably extending long-term finance may contribute to the objectives of higher growth and welfare, shared prosperity and stability in two ways: by reducing rollover risks for borrowers, thereby lengthening the horizon of investments; and by increasing the availability of long-term financial instruments, thereby allowing households to address their lifecycle challenges. The aim of the report is to contribute to the global policy debate on long-term finance. It builds upon findings from recent and ongoing research, lessons from operational work, as well as on inputs from financial sector professionals and researchers both within and outside the World Bank Group. Benefitting from new worldwide datasets and information on financial development, it will provide a broad and balanced review of the evidence and distill pragmatic lessons on long-term finance and related policies. This report, the third in the Global Financial Development Report series, follows the second issue on Financial Inclusion and the inaugural issue, Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance. The Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 will be accompanied by a website worldbank.org/financialdevelopment containing extensive datasets, research papers, and other background materials as well as interactive features.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821360434

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Economic Growth in the 1990s by World Bank Pdf

This report was prepared by a team led by Roberto Zagha, under the general direction of Gobind Nankani.