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At the frontlines of development : reflections from the World Bank

Pugatch, Todd, Gill, Indermit S

2005

Overview

“For 60 years the World Bank and the development community have been searching for the secret of prosperity. For both thinkers and doers, this has been an emotional rollercoaster of hope and disappointment, certainty and doubt. In the front seat of this drama were the World Bank’s country directors who were responsible for bridging the world of ideas with that of action, the technical with the political. In this book they tell this story from a deeply personal, humble, and engaged perspective. This book is fundamental reading for the next generation of those who take on the quest for development.”Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic DevelopmentJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 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.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION / AGRICULTURE / ANALYTICAL WORK / BORROWER COUNTRIES / CAPACITY BUILDING / CAPITAL ACCOUNT / CAPITAL CONTROLS / CAPITAL FLOWS / CIVIL SOCIETY / COMPARATOR COUNTRIES / COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT / COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK / CONDITIONALITY / COUNTRY CONTEXT / COUNTRY LEVEL / COUNTRY OWNERSHIP / COUNTRY SPECIFICITY / DEBT / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPING COUNTRY / DEVELOPING REGIONS / DEVELOPING WORLD / DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES / DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS / DEVELOPMENT GOALS / DEVELOPMENT POLICY / DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE / DEVELOPMENT PROCESS / DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME / DEVELOPMENT REPORT / DONOR COMMUNITY / ECONOMIC CRISES / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT / ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM / ECONOMIC OUTCOMES / ECONOMIC POLICY / ECONOMIC REFORM / ECONOMIC THEORY / ECONOMICS / ECONOMISTS / EMPLOYMENT / Entwicklung / Entwicklungspolitik / EXCHANGE RATE / FINANCIAL CRISES / FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS / GDP / GNP / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH / GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT / GROWTH REGRESSIONS / HEALTH CARE / HUMAN FACE / INCOME / INCOME COUNTRIES / INCOME LEVELS / INFLATION / INFLATION RATES / International finance / Internationale Finanzierung / IWF-Kredit / LIVING STANDARDS / LOCAL CONDITIONS / LOCAL SITUATION / LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT / LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES / MACROECONOMIC ISSUES / MACROECONOMIC STABILITY / MACROECONOMICS / MARKET LIBERALIZATION / MIDDLE EAST / MINES / NATIONAL POLICY / NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS / OPEN ECONOMIES / POLICY CHANGE / POLICY DIALOGUE / POLICY GOALS / POLICY ISSUES / POLICY PACKAGE / POLITICAL ECONOMY / POOR COUNTRIES / POSITIVE EFFECTS / POVERTY REDUCTION / POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY / PRIVATE PROPERTY / PRIVATE SECTOR / PRODUCTION PATTERNS / PRODUCTIVITY / PROPERTY RIGHTS / PUBLIC EXPENDITURE / PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW / PUBLIC POLICY / REFORM PROGRAM / REFORM PROGRAMS / REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES / STANDARD APPROACHES / STATE ENTERPRISES / STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT / STRUCTURAL POLICIES / STRUCTURAL REFORM / TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE / TELECOMMUNICATIONS / TRADE LIBERALIZATION / TRANSITION COUNTRIES / VALUE ADDED / Welt / World Bank / WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION / WTO
• ISBN: 0821360418, 9780821360415