IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/21163_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

History and histories of the World Bank

In: The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Author

Listed:
  • Michele Alacevich
  • Mirek Tobiáš Hošman

Abstract

The history of the World Bank must take into account debates over alternative policies, the roads not taken, and different visions of development that competed for preeminence. In this chapter, we recapitulate the history of the Bank with a focus on how historians and social scientists more broadly have discussed the complex interactions of political, ideological, and economic dynamics. The chapter provides readers with a synthesis of the World Bank’s general evolution and, at the same time, offers to those more versed in this history some references and historiographical analyses that may be the starting point for further, more in-depth study.

Suggested Citation

  • Michele Alacevich & Mirek Tobiáš Hošman, 2024. "History and histories of the World Bank," Chapters, in: Antje Vetterlein & Tobias Schmidtke (ed.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, chapter 2, pages 22-37, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21163_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781802204780.00012
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21163_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.