“…Most academic studies of the World Bank have assumed theoretical and other perspectives on power framed within Enlightenment thought (Foucault, 1986(Foucault, , 1993Gordon, 1993), in terms of a form of problematics of the state (Hindess, 1996;Hildyard, 1998;Pearce & Tombs, 1998), and often with a focus on policy doctrines, policy statements and practice. Rather, this article provides a different approach on the World Bank from an analytics of government perspective (Dean, 1999;Rose, 1999a) and focuses on the Bank as a financial banking enterprise (Jones, 2005(Jones, , 2007 as well as on questions of government (Foucault, 1991), especially questions about the emergence of a historically specific form of neo-liberal political reason of government in North America, advanced liberalism (Rose, 1999a), and attendant political and intellectual technologies of government (Hunter, 1993).…”