The World Bank
Structure and Policies

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Joseph E. Stiglitz
1. The World Bank: an overview of some major issues Christopher L. Gilbert and David Vines
Part I. The World Bank's Structure: The Bank as an Institution:
2. Positioning the World Bank Christopher L. Gilbert, Andrew Powell and David Vines
3. The World Bank and poverty reduction: past, present and future Ravi Kanbur and David Vines
4. Why the World Bank should be involved in development research Lyn Squire
5. The challenges of multilateralism and governance Ngaire Woods
Part II. The Effectiveness of World Bank Assistance:
6. The World Bank and structural adjustment: lessons from the 1980s Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Louise C. Keely
7. The implications of foreign aid fungibility for development assistance Shantayanan Devarajan and Vinya Swaroop
8. Aid, growth, the incentive regime and poverty reduction Craig Burnside and David Dollar
9. How policies and institutions affect project performance: microeconomic evidence on aid, policies and investment productivity Jonathan Isham and Daniel Kaufmann
10. Increasing aid effectiveness in Africa? The World Bank and sector investment programmes Stephen Jones
11. The World Bank, conditionality and the Comprehensive Development Framework Raul Hopkins, Andrew Powell, Amlan Roy and Christopher L. Gilbert
12. Conditionality, dependence and coordination: three current debates in aid policy Paul Collier
Index.

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