The World Bank and urban development

"Although the World Bank has been involved in urban lending for more than three decades, The World Bank and Urban Development 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, including interviews with World Bank and government officials, and through an exploration of factors internal and external to the Bank that have impacted its urban development agenda, this work addreses four major gaps in the literature. The book also examines how protests from NGOs and civic moments, in the context of globalization and neo-liberalism, have influenced World Bank policies from the 1990s to the present. The institution's attempts to restructure and legitimate itself, in light of shifting geo-political and intellectual contexts, are considered throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.