At the frontlines of development : reflections from the World Bank by Gill, Indermit Singh, 1961-; Pugatch, Todd; World Bank instant download

At the frontlines of development : reflections from the World Bank by Gill, Indermit Singh, 1961-; Pugatch, Todd; World Bank instant download

1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages), \"In At the Frontlines of Development: Reflections from the World Bank, former World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both as managers of the World Bank's portfolio 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.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references and index, Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction: Policies, Politics, and Principles: Three Hundred Years of World Bank Experience; Table; 2 Basil Kavalsky; 3 Phyllis Pomerantz; 4 Gobind Nankani; Boxes; 5 Edwin Lim; 6 Shahid Javed Burki; 7 Yukon Huang; 8 Olivier Lafourcade; 9 Christiaan Poortman; 10 Ajay Chhibber; Figures; 11 Inder Sud; 12 James W. Adams; 13 Myrna Alexander; 14 Jayasankar Shivakumar; References; About the Editors; Index, Print version record