edited by Gustav Ranis, James Raymond Vreeland and Stephen Kosack.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xix, 508 pages) :
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illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge studies in the modern world economy ;
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52
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Whither conditionality? -- Who's in charge? : ownership and conditionality in IMF-supported programs / James Boughton -- Policy conditionality / Stephen Coate and Stephen Morris -- Conditionality and ownership in IMF lending : a political economy approach / Allan Drazen -- Empirical implications of endogenous IMF conditionality / Patrick Conway -- The high politics of IMF lending / Strom C. Thacker -- Money talks : supplementary financiers and IMF conditionality / Erica R. Gould -- The World Bank and the reconstruction of the 'social safety net' in Russia and eastern Europe / Paul Mosley -- When the World Bank says yes : determinants of structural adjustment lending / M. Rodwan Abouharb and David L. Cingranelli -- The demand for IMF assistance : what factors influence the decision to turn to the Fund? / Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands -- The survival of political leaders and IMF programs / Alastair Smith and James Raymond Vreeland -- Do PRSPs empower developing countries and disempower the World Bank, or is it the other way round? / Frances Stewart and Michael Wang -- Macroeconomic adjustment in IMF-supported programs : projections and reality / Rouben Atoian, Patrick Conway, Marcelo Selowsky, and Tsidi Tsikata -- The IMF and capital account crises : the case for a separate lender of last resort and conditionality functions / Thomas D. Willett -- Should the IMF discontinue its long-term lending role in developing countries? / Graham Bird and Paul Mosley -- IFIs and IPGs : operational implications for the World Bank / Ravi Kanbur -- Ownership, Dutch disease, and the World Bank / Gustav Ranis -- Why it matters who runs the IMF and the World Bank / Nancy Birdsall -- Do as I say not as I do : a critique of G-7 proposals on "reforming" the MBDs / Devesh Kapur.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programs. Contributors include Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen.