/ edited By Gustav Ranis, James Raymond Vreeland and Stephen Kosack
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xix, 508 pages ; 24 cm.
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(Routledge studies in the modern world economy
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; 52)
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Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
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GMD: electronic resource.
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e
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Whither conditionality? -- Who's in charge? Ownership and conditionality in IMF-supported programs / James Boughton -- Policy conditionality / Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris -- Conditionality and ownership in IMF lending: a political economy approach / Allan Drazen -- Empirical implications of endogenous IMF conditionality / Patrick Conway -- The international and domestic politics of IFI programs -- 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, David L. Cingranelli -- The demand for IMF assistance: what factors influence the decision to turn to the Fund? / Graham Bird, Dane Rowlands -- The survival of political leaders and IMF programs / Alastair Smith, James Raymond Vreeland -- Do PRSPs empower poor countries and disempower the World Bank, or is it the other way round? / Frances Stewart, Michael Wang -- Possible reforms of the IFIs -- Macroeconomic adjustment in IMF-supported programs: projections and reality / Rouben Atoian, Patrick Conway, Marcelo Selowsky, 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, Paul Mosley -- IFIs and IPGs: operational implications for the World Bank / Ravi Kanbur -- Ownership, Dutch Disease, and the World Bank / Gustav Ranis -- Reflections on the international infrastructure -- 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 MDBs / Devesh Kapur.