With the aim of reducing women.s greater unpaid care work than men.s and increasing women.s paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 Worl

Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been a lot of enthusiasm over the anticipated Latin American 'miracle'. In this study, Professor Hernando Gomez Buendia explores the background, facts and achievements of the development experience in the region during the 1990s. He discusses in depth...

1. The World Bank and Wolfensohn era reforms -- 2. The ABCs of the World Bank -- 3. A framework for modeling Bank behavior -- 4. The dynamics of epistemic economic change -- 5. Application to debt relief, participation and knowledge -- 6. Application to social capital -- 7. Application to...

The seemingly endless problems encountered by the IMF, WTO and World Bank provide major reasons for seeking reform. However, an additional impetus is the changing balance of economic power in the world. The volume begins with an overview of the Bretton Woods and international trading systems....

Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been

Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out stru

The World Bank.s health sector projects in Timor-Leste.the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project.have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country

Initial models of development debates on how to achieve economic growth have been added to by a focus on social issues such as education and political participation. These debates and discourses about development are shaped by international organizations