@techreport{Shams2004World,
abstract = {The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its
foundation it has widened the scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of
what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods. If we take this
interpretation seriously the comprehensiveness of the Bank's activity suggests that the
Bank is assuming more and more the functions of a world government in the making.
An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank as a huge bureaucratic
organization, acting on its own behalf. This interpretation can not be endorsed fully by
the available information, but only in the sense of bureau-shaping. The Bank itself is
proud of being a knowledge bank. But its actual activity is the popularization of ideas
on development and not the application of research outcomes in its day-to-day
operations. The most appropriate interpretation of the activity of the World Bank is that
its changing scope and size is shaped heavily by pressure from different interest groups.},
author = {Rasul Shams},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {O1; G21; F34; F33; 330; international lending; economic development; public goods; interest groups; Entwicklungsbank; Internationale Wirtschaftsorganisation; Internationale Kreditvergabe; Entwicklungshilfe; \"{O}ffentliches Gut; Interessenpolitik; Welt; International Bank for Reconstruction and Development},
language = {eng},
number = {292},
title = {The World Bank as an International Financial Institution},
type = {HWWA Discussion Paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19264},
year = {2004}
}
