Political economy of the world bank: the early years/ Michele Alacevich.

By:

Michele, Alacevich

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TextPublication details: Washington: Stanford University Press, 2009.Description: xvi, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780804760652

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DDC classification:

332.1532 ALA/P

Contents:

Preface -- Acknowledgments --1: World Bank And Development -- Historical context -- Methodological framework -- Pars Destruens -- Pars Construens -- 2 Currie Mission In Colombia, 1949-1953 -- Importance of the Colombia Mission for the Switch from Reconstruction to Development -- End of the Reconstruction Phase -- Initial contacts between the Colombian Government and the IBRD -- Collaboration between Lauchlin Currie and the IBRD -- Mission collects information -- Putting the team together -- First IBRD general survey mission, Colombia 1949 -- Currie Mission Report -- Comite de Desarrollo Economico (1950-1951) and the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1954) -- Evolution of the relationship between Currie and the World Bank -- Tensions within the Comite de Desarrollo Economico -- Difficult beginning of the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1953) -- End of the affair -- 3 Economic Development In Theory And Practice -- Development approaches: balanced versus unbalanced growth -- Balanced growth -- Unbalanced growth -- Development approaches: program loans versus project loans -- Program loans -- Project loans -- Debate on development reverberates inside the IBRD -- Conflicting approaches: program versus project -- Program versus project: the bank's changing attitude -- Autobiographical notes -- Currie versus Hirschman: monetary and fiscal policy -- Analyzing the situation -- Hypotheses -- Clash -- Currie versus Hirschman: iron and steel production -- Analysis of the Currie Mission -- Interests at odds -- Informe de la Mision Parael Comite and the flesher solution -- Steel and development: reasons for disagreement -- Changing alliances --Agreements and disagreements -- Sociological interpretation of the development economics debate: Robert K Merton and the "Kindle Cole" principle -- 4: At The Root Of The Bank's Policy Advice -- Urban development plan for Barranquilla -- Request for IBRD financing -- Why did the bank refuse financing? -- IBRD and housing loans -- ILO proposal and the first IBRD comments -- Disengagement of the IBRD -- Discussions at the bank: impact loans and social loans -- Impact loans -- Social loans -- Bank's relentless preference for directly productive loans -- Raising funds in the US capital market -- Wall street men -- US foreign economic policy and the wane of the New Deal -- Early successes of the bank: an obstacle to change -- Coda: the end of the debate -- Reorganization of 1952 -- Black's bank -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of names.

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Preface --
Acknowledgments --1: World Bank And Development --
Historical context --
Methodological framework --
Pars Destruens --
Pars Construens --
2 Currie Mission In Colombia, 1949-1953 --
Importance of the Colombia Mission for the Switch from Reconstruction to Development --
End of the Reconstruction Phase --
Initial contacts between the Colombian Government and the IBRD --
Collaboration between Lauchlin Currie and the IBRD --
Mission collects information --
Putting the team together --
First IBRD general survey mission, Colombia 1949 --
Currie Mission Report --
Comite de Desarrollo Economico (1950-1951) and the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1954) --
Evolution of the relationship between Currie and the World Bank --
Tensions within the Comite de Desarrollo Economico --
Difficult beginning of the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1953) --
End of the affair --
3 Economic Development In Theory And Practice --
Development approaches: balanced versus unbalanced growth --
Balanced growth --
Unbalanced growth --
Development approaches: program loans versus project loans --
Program loans --
Project loans --
Debate on development reverberates inside the IBRD --
Conflicting approaches: program versus project --
Program versus project: the bank's changing attitude --
Autobiographical notes --
Currie versus Hirschman: monetary and fiscal policy --
Analyzing the situation --
Hypotheses --
Clash --
Currie versus Hirschman: iron and steel production --
Analysis of the Currie Mission --
Interests at odds --
Informe de la Mision Parael Comite and the flesher solution --
Steel and development: reasons for disagreement --
Changing alliances --Agreements and disagreements --
Sociological interpretation of the development economics debate: Robert K Merton and the "Kindle Cole" principle --
4: At The Root Of The Bank's Policy Advice --
Urban development plan for Barranquilla --
Request for IBRD financing --
Why did the bank refuse financing? --
IBRD and housing loans --
ILO proposal and the first IBRD comments --
Disengagement of the IBRD --
Discussions at the bank: impact loans and social loans --
Impact loans --
Social loans --
Bank's relentless preference for directly productive loans --
Raising funds in the US capital market --
Wall street men --
US foreign economic policy and the wane of the New Deal --
Early successes of the bank: an obstacle to change --
Coda: the end of the debate --
Reorganization of 1952 --
Black's bank --
Conclusions --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index of names.

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