The African continent has long been plagued by economic problems.
During the 1970s, with famines and two oil crises, the attention of
the international donor community was riveted on Africa. In the 1980s
international organizations, both governmental and private, have
responded to the African crises.
One increasingly visible organization is the African Development Bank,
recently heralded by the _Wall Street Journal_ as "the rarest of
African species: a success." Founded in 1964 by African governments,
its mandate was to solve African problems using African resources. But
the devastation of the 1970s forced bank members to reexamine the
implications of Africanicity, and in 1982 the bank courted nonregional
members.
In this first academic study of the ADB, Karen Mingst argues that the
bank is a political institution, not the functional, economically
neutral organization originally envisioned. Using bank archives and
extensive interviews with ADB personnel, contractors, the economic
development community, and national government officials, Mingst
analyzes the changing political relationships in the ADB in three
arenas: intraorganizational politics with effects on the secretariat
and on policy issues, political relations with other development
organizations, and hegemonic politics among politically and
economically powerful state members.
Particularly fascinating are her analyses of ADB techniques to
influence borrowing states and her discussion of the cooperative and
competitive relationship between the ADB and the World Bank. Mingst
concludes by comparing the ADB with the other multilateral development
banks: the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development
Bank.
This book will interest all policymakers and scholars concerned with
international organizations, economic development, and the entire
future of Africa.
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ISBN
9780813156811
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
The University Press of Kentucky
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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