The World Bank and Africa

The Construction of Governance States

By:

Graham Harrison

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge advances in international political economy

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Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group annual book prize, 2006. An incisive exploration of the interventions of the World Bank in severely indebted African states. Understanding sovereignty as a frontier rather than a boundary, this key study develops a vision of a powerful international organization reconciling a global political economy with its own designs and a specific set of challenges posed by the African region. This analysis details the nature of the World Bank intervention in the sovereign frontier, investigating institutional development, discursive intervention, and political stabilization. It tackles the methods by which the World Bank has led a project to re-shape certain African states according to a governance template, leading to the presentation of 'success stories' in a continent associated with reform failure. This conceptually innovative book details a political economy of the World Bank in Africa that is both globally contextualized and attentive to individual states. It is the only volume to look at the bank's relations with Africa and will interest all students and researchers of African politics and the World Bank.

Author Biography:

Graham Harrison lectures politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is an editor of New Political Economy and Review of African Political Economy, and is currently working on the concept of empire in international relations, and administrative reform in Tanzania.

Release date Australia

October 22nd, 2007

Author

Graham Harrison

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

176

Series

Routledge advances in international political economy

Dimensions

156x234x10

ISBN-13

9780415459839

Product ID

11359268

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