In and Against Development: The World Bank Behind the Looking Glass

by Ben Fine

Long self-proclaimed as "Knowledge Bank", the World Bank is as active as criticised in its endeavours across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalisation, neoliberalism and financialisation. This Volume focuses on the Bank's scholarship, meticulously criticising it and assessing alternatives. Its analytical framing draws upon economics imperialism in general, and its evolution through three phases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004723501
• ISBN13: 9789004723504
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 359 Pages