Inside the World Bank: Exploding the Myth of the Monolithic Bank [Paperback]

This book argues that the World Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff.Inside the World Bank Mandates Politics and Management Regions and Sectors Centralization and Decentralization Research in DEC and in Operations? Self- and External Evaluation? Governance: Political, not Politics? Electric Power A Life at the World Bank

Providing a rich description of many aspects of the World Bank, with details on internal operations that specialists may value, the authors posit that the World Bank is not well described by conventional principal-agent or bureaucratic models. Summing Up: Recommended. - Choice

XU YI-CHONG and PATRICK WELLER are professors of politics at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, USA.