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Title Globalization and the nation state [electronic resource] : the impact of the IMF and the World Bank / edited By Gustav Ranis, James Raymond Vreeland and Stephen Kosack.

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Description xix, 508 p. : ill.
Series Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 52
Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 52.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject International Monetary Fund.
World Bank.
Financial institutions, International.
Nation-state.
Economic assistance -- Political aspects.
Technical assistance -- Political aspects.
International economic relations.
International trade.
Globalization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ranis, Gustav.
Vreeland, James Raymond, 1971-
Kosack, Stephen, 1978-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415700868 (hbk.)

 
    
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