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Book SynopsisThe World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise. Critics are especially quick to decry the World Bank's hypocrisy - the pervasive gaps between the organization's talk, decisions, and actions. This book explores how the characteristics of change in a complex international organization make hypocrisy difficult to resolve.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy Scientists Co-Winner of the 2009 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association "One constant frustration to anyone who follows the World Bank is the frequent difference between the institution's words and actions. In this book, Weaver offers a convincing explanation for this 'organized hypocrisy'... The book's initial chapters provide a good introduction to the idea of hypocrisy as an institutional response to conflicting demands."--C. Kilby, Choice
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Abbreviations xv CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Hypocrisy and Change in the World Bank 1 CHAPTER TWO: The World Bank Hypocrisy Trap 19 CHAPTER THREE: The World's Bank and the Bank's World 44 CHAPTER FOUR: Good Governance and Anticorruption: From Rhetoric to Reality? 92 CHAPTER FIVE: The Poverty of Reform 140 CHAPTER SIX: The Fog of Development 176 List of Interviews 193 References 195 Index 219
