World Bank and Urban Development: From Projects to Policy

by Edward Ramsamy

As one of the world's most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank's urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy formulation in the developing world. Through extensive primary research, the book examines four major themes:

the political and economic forces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138987352
• ISBN13: 9781138987357
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"