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پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
395T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Globalizing Development: Robert McNamara at the World Bank
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: DuBois, Ellen C.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California, Los Angeles: United States -- California
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
512 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, University of California, Los Angeles: United States -- California
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This dissertation provides a historical analysis of Robert McNamara's presidency of the World Bank. The Bank, a group of intergovernmental organizations whose original body, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), was created at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to provide financial support for postwar reconstruction and economic development, changed significantly under McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and one of the primary architects of the Vietnam War. As its President from 1968 to 1981 McNamara turned the Bank from a relatively small and passive organization into the world's preeminent development institution. The Bank's borrowing and lending portfolios, staff size, and research program greatly expanded, and its goals broadened from promoting the economic growth of developing nations to alleviating poverty within them. Under McNamara the Bank also began to play a greater role in the affairs of many borrowing countries. The Bank's growing interventionism led to the advent in 1980 of structural adjustment lending, in which the organization began to condition some of its loans on neoliberal policy changes in borrowing nations. This new direction intensified ongoing processes of international economic integration, but it also increased rates of poverty and inequality in recipient countries.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including previously untapped Bank documents, this dissertation contextualizes the organization's transformation under McNamara within broader developments in world affairs during the time. In so doing it recovers some of the human agency frequently lost in narratives of globalization while contributing to the scholarly literature on the history of development, global governance, and the Cold War.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American history
Modern history
International Relations
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
McNamara
Subject Term
Robert
Subject Term
World Bank
Subject Term
Globalization
Subject Term
Development
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sharma, Patrick Allan
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
DuBois, Ellen C., supervisor
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Country
ایران
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