World Bank and Urban Development

Name: World Bank and Urban Development
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

World Bank and Urban DevelopmentFrom Projects to Policy\nAuthor(s): Edward Ramsamy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415344395, 978-0415344395\nSynopsis\nAs one of the worlds most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Banks urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy formulation in the developing world. Through extensive primary research, the book examines four major themes: \n\nthe political and economic forces that propelled the reluctant World Bank to finally embrace urban programs in the 1970s\nhow the Bank fashioned its general ideology of development into specific urban projects\ntrends and transitions within the Banks urban agenda from its inception to the present\nthe World Banks historic and contemporary role in the complex i.