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ERIC Number: EJ659860
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
The World Bank Policies: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't.
de Moura Castro, Claudio
Comparative Education, v38 n4 p387-99 Nov 2002
A former employee of the World Bank discusses the logic behind multilateral development banks and how they operate, bank ideology and the nature of policy formation, educational and other reforms as loan conditions, the inability of development banks to enforce implementation of their policies in countries receiving loans, and whether the banks learn from their mistakes. (SV)
Descriptors: Banking, Educational Policy, Ideology, Institutional Environment, Policy Formation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Barriers to Implementation; International Aid; Policy Implementation; World Bank
Note: Theme issue title: "Latin America and Educational Transfer" (special number 26).