In the 1990s the World Bank changed its policy to take the
position that the problems of poverty and governance are
inextricably linked, and improving the governance of its borrower
countries became increasingly accepted as a legitimate and
important part of the World Bank s development activities. This
book examines why the World Bank came to see good governance as
important and evaluate what the World Bank is doing to improve the
governance of its borrower countries.
David Williams examines changing World Bank policy since the
late 1970s to show how a concern with good governance grew out of
the problems the World Bank was experiencing with structural
adjustment lending, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book
provides an account of the early years of the World Bank and traces
the increasing acceptance of the idea of good governance within the
Bank through the 1990s, while systematically relating the policies
of good governance to liberalism. The author provides a detailed
case study of World Bank lending to Ghana to demonstrate what the
attempt to improve governance looks like in practice. Williams
assesses whether the World Bank has been successful in its attempts
to improve governance, and draws out some of the implications of
the argument for how we should think about sovereignty, for how we
should understand the connections between liberalism and
international politics.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
international relations, politics, economics, development and
African studies.
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