The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the … scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods … more and more the functions of a world government in the making. An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank …

part, the paper assesses the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO (PCWTO) and the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank … (Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, PCWTO) und das Parlamentarische Netzwerk zur Weltbank (Parliamentary Network on the World Bank …

countries, and to the experience of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank Group. …

Since the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were launched at Bretton Woods more than 50 years ago, and the … regional development banks in subsequent decades, the world economy has changed in important respects. In considering the role … result, world real interest rates have increased markedly. Second, the poor performance of statist models of development has …

combination of different international institutions would be needed to keep the world financial system from degenerating into … periodic and destructive crises (Mikesell, 1994). Following the creation of the World Bank, a number of international financial … closely the World Bank course. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and, much later on, the European Bank for Reconstruction and …

financial institutions (IFIs). For multilateral development banks like the World Bank, their central mission, the promotion of … growth and the reduction of poverty, is clear. The steps toward fulfilling this mission in a changing world are also … our thinking both on why we have IFIs in the first place, and the role that they should play in a changing world. …