LibGuides: Sources for WBG History Guide: Partnerships & Civil Society

Critics and Critiques

CRITIQUES
WATCHDOGS AND OBSERVERS

Benjamin, Bret. 2007. Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Caufield, Catherine. 1997. Masters of Illusion: the World Bank and the Poverty of Nations. Henry Holt & Co.
Danaher, Kevin. 1994. 50 years is enough: the case against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Boston, Mass: South End Press.
Evans, Jessica. 2015. At your own risk : reprisals against critics of World Bank Group projects New York, N.Y. : Human Rights Watch.
Films on Demand. 2005. Reforming the World Bank. Hamilton, NJ: Films Media Group [distributor].
Griffiths, Peter. 2015. The Economist's Tale: a Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank.
January, Brendan. 2007. Globalize it!: the stories of the IMF, the World Bank, the WYO - and those who protest. Minneapolis, Minn: Lerner.
Konkel, R. 2014. “The monetization of global poverty: The concept of poverty in world bank history,” 1944-90. Journal of Global History, 9(2), 276-300.
Moore, Frederick T. 1958. The Failures of the World Bank missions. Santa Monica: Reproduced by Rand.
Payer, Cheryl. 1982. The World Bank: a critical analysis. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Peet, Richard. 2009. Unholy trinity: the IMF, World Bank and WTO. London: Zed Books.
Pincus, Jonathan, and Jeffrey A. Winters. 2002. Reinventing the World Bank. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Price, David. 1989. Before the bulldozer : the Nambiquara Indians and the World Bank. Cabin John, MD : Seven Locks Press.
Rolfe, Rebecca Eve and Henry Veltmeyer. 2008. On the World Bank as an agent of economic imperialism
Shaman, David. 2011. The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the revolutionary struggle for transparency
Walden, Shelley and Beatrice Edwards. 2009. Racial Discrimination at the World Bank: A review of the treatment of black employees in recruitment, retention and justice decisions. Washington D.C.: Government Accountability Project.
Yi Chong Xu and Patrick Weller, Inside the World Bank: exploding the myth of the monolithic bank

BIC – Bank information center
Bretton Woods Project - https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) – World Bank page
Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debt – www.cadtm.org
Friends of the Earth (FOE) – Archives
IATI – International Aid Transparency Initiative
Petersen Institute for International Economics – World Bank items

Historical Associations

European Association for Banking and Financial History

Civic engagement

Davis, Tom and Michael Moran. Influencing world bank policy agendas through networks: the possibilities and pitfalls of NGO-Bank 'partnerships'

Country Opinion Surveys
Surveys exploring perceptions of the World Bank's work (speed, effectiveness, relevance, etc.), knowledge, and engagement on the ground to improve World Bank results.

ABCDE 2019 – Multilateralism: Past, Present, and Future - Historians talk – June 18, 2019
CSPAN Videos concerning World Bank Group staff

Bänziger, Hugo. (Bretton Woods) Interview with Barry Eichengreen. Finance & History Podcast audio. August 12, 2021.
Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast – Episode 16. Defining and Measuring Poverty. August 8, 2019.
History of the Cold War - Episode 38 - World Bank and International Monetary Fund . Nov 30, 2017.
The Vegan Vangard - Episode 35. Economic Refugees and the IMF/World Bank with Greg from In The Roots . May 30, 2019.