Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network (Routledge Studies in Globalisation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415248477 ISBN 13: 9780415248471

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Banking on Knowledge is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'Knowledge Bank'. The book addresses how international organizations and governments are developing partnerships with think tanks, research institutes and other knowledge institutions in the hope of informing and improving policies for reform and development around the world.

The book focuses on the recently established Global Development Network (GDN). The GDN is a new and ambitious initiative, sponsored by the World Bank, which is possibly the largest worldwide non-governmental enterprise aimed at producing knowledge as a public good on a global scale. Timely, original and provocative, this book is essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers and professionals with an interest in the future of the World Bank, the strategies of think tanks and the changing nature of development.

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Diane Stone

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415248477
• ISBN 13: 9780415248471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Stone Diane