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Contents
List of contributors iv
Acknowledgements v
List of abbreviations vi
Foreword by Richard Jolly vii
Part I
1 Introduction: Power and Ideas in Multilateral Institutions -
Towards an Interpretative Framework 1
Morten B¢ås and Desmond McNeill
2 The Development Discourse in the Multilateral System 14
Knut G. Nustad
3 Contesting Policy Ideas from Below 27
Norman Long
4 The Informal Sector: Biography of an Idea 46
Desmond McNeill
5 Policy Stories and Knowledge-based Regimes: The Case of
International Population Policy 61
Ole Jacob Sending
6 The World Bank and the Environment 79
Robert Wade
7 Sustainable Development and the World Trade Organisation 105
Morten B¢ås and Jonas Vevatne
8 Social Capital and the World Bank 119
Desmond McNeill
9 Hegemony, Neo-liberal 'Good Governance' and the International
Monetary Fund: A Gramscian Perspective 134
Ian Taylor
10 Balancing between East and West: The Asian Development Bank
Policy on Good Governance 148
Janne Jokinen
11 'Good Governance' and the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) -
Ideas and Organisational Constraints 164
Ken Masujima
12 The Evolution of the Concept of Poverty in Multilateral Financial
Institutions: The Case of the World Bank 178
Alice Sindzingre
13 The Role of Ideas in the United Nations Development Programme 195
Asuncion Lera St. Clair
14 The Power of Ideas: Across the Constructivist - Realist Divide 211
James J. Hentz
15 Ideas and Institutions: Who is Framing What? 225
Morten B¢ås and Desmond McNeill
Bibliography 245
Index 275
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