TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alacevich, Michele
TI  - Political economy of the world bank : the early years
SN  - 0804760667
U1  - 332.1532 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Economic history
N1  - Contents Preface  xi Acknowledgments  xv 1.  THE WORLD BANK AND DEVELOPMENT  1 Historical Context  2 Methodological Framework  3 Pars Destruens  4 Pars Construens  8 2.  THE  CURRIE  MISSIONINCOLOMBIA,1949-1953  11 The Importance of the Colombia Mission for the Switch from Reconstruction to Development  12 End of the Reconstruction Phase  12 Initial Contacts Between the Colombian Government and the IBRD  15 The Collaboration Between Lauchlin Currie and the IBRD  22 The Mission Collects Information  22 Putting the Team Together  28 The First IBRD General Survey Mission, Colombia 1949  35 The Currie Mission Report  39 The Comite de Desarrollo Economico (1950-1951) and the Consejo Nacional de Planificacion (1952-1954)  46 The Evolution of the Relationship Between Currie and the World Bank   Tensions Within the Comite de Desarrollo Economico  50 The Difficult Beginning of the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1953)  53 The End of the Affair  61   3.  ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT  IN  THEORY AND PRACTICE   Development Approaches: Balanced Versus Unbalanced Growth  66 Balanced Growth  67 Unbalanced Growth 70 Development Approaches: Program Loans Versus Project Loans  76 Program Loans  77 Project Loans  78 The Debate on Development Reverberates Inside the IBRD  79 Conflicting Approaches: Program Versus Project    79 Program Versus Project: The Bank's Changing Attitude  80 Autobiographical Notes  82 Currie Versus Hirschman: Monetary and Fiscal Policy  83 Analyzing the Situation  83 Hypotheses  84 The Clash  85 Currie Versus Hirschman: Iron and Steel Production  87 Analysis of the Currie Mission  87 Interests at Odds  90 The Informe de la Mision Para el Comite and the Flesher Solution  93 Steel and Development: Reasons for Disagreement  98 Changing Alliances  103 Agreements and Disagreements  103 A Sociological Interpretation of the Development Economics Debate: Robert K. Merton and the Kindle Cole  Principle  105 4.  AT THE ROOT OF THE BANK'S POLICY ADVICE  112 The Urban Development Plan for Barranquilla  114 Request for IBRD Financing  114 Why Did the Bank Refuse Financing?  118 The IBRD and Housing Loans  120 The ILO Proposal and the First IBRD Comments  120 The Disengagement of the IBRD  122 Discussions at the Bank: Impact Loans and Social Loans  123 Impact Loans  123 Social Loans  127 The Bank's Relentless Preference for Directly Productive Loans  129 Raising Funds in the U. S. Capital Market  130 Wall Street Men  131 U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and the Wane of the New Deal  133 The Early Successes of the Bank: An Obstacle to Change  136 Coda: The End of the Debate  136 The Reorganization of 1952  136 Black's Bank  144 Conclusions  147 Notes  155 Bibliography  185 Index of Names  195
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