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This book analyses the World Bank's provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day. It argues that the relational dynamics between technical assistance provider and recipient affects the legitimacy of policy norms travelling from the 'international' to the 'domestic'. Beginning from the constructivist position that 'development' is a social construct, the author contends that successful policy movement via technical assistance depends on the recipient's perception of the validity of policy reforms, with perception being influenced by the way those ideas and practices are presented, packaged, and transferred. In advancing this argument, Bazbauers analyses four pillars of World Bank technical assistance: technical assistance components (advisory services incorporated within lending operations), stand-alone technical assistance projects (projects designed to solely deliver technical assistance), survey missions (activities involved in measuring the development status of developing countries), and training institutes (the courses of the Economic Development Institute and World Bank Institute).

The World Bank and Transferring Development: Policy Movement through Technical Assistance

1          Transferring Development                                                                                       

                        Development: A Constructed Idea                                                                 

                        The World Bank                                                                                             

               

         Technical Assistance                                                                                      

                        Structure of the Book                                                                            

         

 

2          Policy Movement and Technical Assistance                                                           

                        Policy Movement                                                                                    

       

                        Technical Assistance                                                                                       

                        World Bank Technical Assistance                 &nbs

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                        From the International to the Domestic                                                                                                        

 

3          The World Bank                 

;                                                                                      

                        The Bretton Woods Era                                                   &nbs

p;                              

                        The Washington Consensus Era                                                                     

                        The Post-Washington Consensus Era             &nbs

p;                                                                                        

 

4          Technical Assistance Components                                                                                                  

Formative Years: 1940s to 1960s                            &nb

sp;                                      

                        Rural and Urban Poverty                                                                                

                 

       Structural and Sectoral Adjustment                                                               

                        Economies in Transition                                                               &n

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                        Economies in Crisis                                                                                         

                        Development Policy Lending    

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5          Technical Assistance Loans                                                                                      

                        Technical Assistance Projects                                                                         

                        Technical Assistance Loans                                     &n

bsp;                                      

                        Non-Lending Technical Assistance                                                                

                        Reimbursable Advisory Services       &nbs

p;                                                                                                 

 

6          Survey Missions                                                                                            

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                        General Survey Missions                                                                                

                        Country Economic Memoranda               &n

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                        Country Assistance Strategies                                                                                  &nb

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                        Economic and Sector Work                                                                            

                        Country Partnership Frameworks                                                     &n

bsp;                                                 

 

7          Training Institutes                                                                                                     

               &nbs

p;        International Training Institutes                                                                    

                        Economic Development Institute                                                                   

                        World Bank Institute                                                                                      

                        Socialization through Training

           

8          Development Transferred?                  &n

bsp;