The World Bank and Global Managerialism

A toxic mix? Comparative efficiency and the privatization of sanitation services in India

“…International NGOs set the tone for civil society (Hudock, 1999), while in public administration, transnational institutions such as OECD/DAC and the World Bank promote particular visions of the appropriate functioning of the contemporary state. However, the World Bank attempts to straddle the public, private and third sectors, thus acting as a proto-world governance institution (Cammack, 2002;Murphy, 2008). This received mission is reflected in a very conscious effort on the part of the Bank to create a thought collective, manifested in the Bank's self-branding as the Knowledge Bank and the assiduous dissemination of World Bank policy expertise (Wilks, 2002), as well as the organization's emphasis on its 'convening power', bringing different interests together to address issues from the Bank's particular thought-style perspective (Stern, 2002).…”

Administração E Gestão De Desenvolvimento Do Atlântico Norte No Governo Do Brasil: Uma Análise Histórica Do Banco Mundial

“…No entanto, os montantes de empréstimos ao Brasil indicam-no como um grande ator de importante significado nesse País bem como é ao redor do mundo. O livro referência de Murphy (2008b) não nomeia e nem trata a gestão do desenvolvimento de forma direta. Pertinentemente, Murphy sugere que a instituição do Banco e a ideologia e a prática do Banco servem para gerar e sustentar uma elite gerencialista global, afirmando:…”

“…Como o Banco Mundial (2008b) ressaltou, o Brasil é incomum no que diz respeito ao Banco Mundial tê-lo feito empréstimos em níveis subnacionais de governo, como municipalidades. Isso em parte permitiu gastos mutuários adicionais e reais a esses projetos, então seu gasto real totaliza US$ 1.771,88 milhões (BANCO MUNDIAL, 2009b;2009d;Banco Mundial, 2008ª;2008b;2008c). Isso é uma parte da atividade e analisada retrospectivamente coloca em questão o problema comum da generalidade em termos de representatividade das relações do Brasil com o Banco Mundial ao longo do tempo.…”

The World Bank’s Discourse on Social Inequality: A Policy of Appeasement?

“…Specifically, cases of rhetoric and policy implementation illustrate a key contradiction between the goal of social justice and the goal of globalized economic growth. Murphy (2008) examines the often paradoxical mandates of the WB: to promote economic and social objectives simultaneously with developmental ends, noting that while WB social goals become increasingly aligned with the MDGs, larger macroeconomic goals maintain a philosophy of structural adjustment: export-oriented growth, reductions in the size of the public sector, and growth in privatization. Our analyses of social inequality confirm that, in policy strategies specifically propagandized to ameliorate poverty and inequality, the WB simultaneously enacts contradictory policies.…”

“…The WB-mandated neoliberal pension reforms in Brazil were used to redirect funding to the BFP and consolidate the social service programs and government ministries. Murphy (2008) contends that WB actions deepen poverty, making realization of the social objectives unachievable. Drawing on Tajikistan in 2002, Murphy (2008) notes that after the WB established that ""unemployment and underemployment rates in Tajikistan are high, and this is a basic source of poverty"" (p. 63), it also insisted that ""downsizing the public sector should form part of the reform package"" (p. 63).…”