Washington politics, world poverty, and the wealth of nations /
Sarah Babb.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index.
The banks and their shareholders -- The congressional revolt -- The Reagan revolution -- Disciplining the banks -- The emergence of the Washington consensus -- The consensus evolves -- The banks and civil society -- Into the new millennium.
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The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) carry out their mission to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth based on the advice of professional economists. But as Sarah Babb argues in Behind the Development Banks, these organizations have also been indelibly shaped by Washington politics-particularly by the legislative branch and its power of the purse. Tracing American influence on MDBs over three decades, this volume assesses increased congressional activism and the perpetual "selling" of banks to Congress by the executive branch. Babb contends that con.
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