 | The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers Subjects: International Monetary Fund; World Bank; Debts External -- Political aspects; Loans Foreign -- Political aspects; International finance -- Political aspects; The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? Ngaire Woods is a Tenured Fellow at University College, Oxford, and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University. She is the editor of The Political Economy of Globalization and Explaining International Relations since 1945 and the coeditor of Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics. |
