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At the Frontlines of Development
Reflections from the World Bank
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- English
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About this book
In 'At the Frontlines of Development' former World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both as managers of the World Bank's programs in global economic hotspots of the 1990s as well as throughout their careers in development economics. These essays detail, among many stories of development in the 1990s, how China and India lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while Russia collapsed; how Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mozambique remade their war-ravaged economies; and how Thailand, Turkey, and Argentina fell into financial crisis. These remarkable stories, told in first-person by the country directors who were there to witness them, provide candid assessments of development in the 1990s'what succeeded, what failed, and what lessons emerged. This book is part of a larger effort undertaken by the World Bank to understand the development experience of the 1990s, an extraordinary eventful decade. Each of the project's three volumes serves a different purpose. 'Economic Growth in the 1990s' provides comprehensive analysis of the decade's development experience, while 'Development Challenges in the 1990s' offers insights on the practical concerns faced by policymakers.
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Yes, you can access At the Frontlines of Development by Indermit S. Gill,Todd Pugatch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Business Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Tables, Figures, and Boxes
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Introduction: Policies, Politics, and Principles: Three Hundred Years of World Bank Experience
- 2 Basil Kavalsky
- 3 Phyllis Pomerantz
- 4 Gobind Nankani
- 5 Edwin Lim
- 6 Shahid Javed Burki
- 7 Yukon Huang
- 8 Olivier Lafourcade
- 9 Christiaan Poortman
- 10 Ajay Chhibber
- 11 Inder Sud
- 12 James W. Adams
- 13 Myrna Alexander
- 14 Jayasankar Shivakumar
- References
- About the Editors
- Index
- Table
- Figures
- Boxes