The World Bank and Africa : the construction of governance states

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Full Title:: The World Bank and Africa : the construction of governance states / Graham Harrison
Series Titles:: Routledge advances in international political economy ; 13
Routledge advances in international political economy ; 13.

Subjects:: World Bank
Economic history
Africa--Economic policy
Africa--Politics and government--1960-

Table of Contents:: Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The road to governance the World Bank and Africa; 2 Governance states in Africa conceptualising the encounter between the World Bank and the sovereign frontier; 3 Conceptualising the World Bank governance and global régimes; 4 Introducing post conditionality; 5 The mechanics of post-conditionality; 6 Liberalism and the discourse of reform in governance states; 7 Securing governance states; 8 Neoliberalism's revenge; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary:: Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group annual book prize, 2006.An incisive exploration of the interventions of the World Bank in severely indebted African states. Understanding sovereignty as a frontier rather than a boundary, this key study develops a vision of a powerful international organization reconciling a global political economy with its own designs and a specific set of challenges posed by the African region. This analysis details the nature of the World Bank intervention in the sovereign frontier, investigating institutional development, discursiv
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (177 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.

Catalog ID (MMSID):: 9936711452202486
ISBN:: 1-134-41401-3
0-203-60122-X
1-134-41402-1
1-280-07716-6
0-203-50064-4
OCLC Number:: 437055370
56091483
Other Identifiers:: doi: 10.4324/9780203500644