The Hobbled Giant

First published in 1984. In these essays, Stanley Please contends that the World Bank is constrained in its ability to use its position and .power in the interests of more rapid development of the poorer countries of the world.

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Stanley Please, currently a consultant to the World Bank and a research scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford, England, was senior advisor to the operational senior vice-president of the World Bank from 1980 to 1983. Previously, he had been director of the World Bank operational programs in eastern Africa and subsequently, in east Asia.

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INTRODUCTION,THE GLOBAL INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT FOR WORLD BANK ACTIVITIES, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, IMF CONDITIONALITY, AND THE WORLD BANK, WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT LENDING, TRADE POLICY, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY REFORM, TRADE POLICY, EXCHANGE RATE POLICY, AND THE WORLD BANK, POLITICAL, TECHNOCRATIC, AND STYLE ASPECTS OF WORLD BANK ACTIVITIES