Incluye índice.

v.1. 1.Introduction: Poverty and the World Bank's Evolving Purpose: Chapters 2-72 -- 2. The Bank for Reconstruction, 1944-1948 -- 3. The Bank of the 1950s -- 4. Approaching the Poor, 1959-1968 – 5. Poverty Moves Up -- 6. Waging War on Poverty -- 7. Demotion and Rededication: 1981 to the mid-1990s -- 8. Agriculture and Rural Development -- 9. Policy-Linked Lending: I -- 10. Policy-Linked Lending: II -- 11. The Latin American Debt Crisis -- 12.The Weakness of Strength: The Challenge of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 13.The International Finance CorporationJonas Haralz -- The Bank in the World Bank: Chapters 14-16 -- 14.The Evolution of the World Bank as a Financial Institution -- 15.Riding the Credit Boom -- 16.Coping with Financial Turbulence -- 17.IDA: The Bank as a Dispenser of Concessional Aid -- 18.The Bank's Institutional Identity: Governance, Internal Management, External Relations -- Some Key Events in the History of the World Bank Group, 1944-1996. – v.2. The World Bank as a Development-Promoting Institution / Devesh Kapur, John P. Lewis, Richard Webb -- 2.The Republic of Korea's Successful Economic Development and the World Bank / Mahn-Je Kim -- 3.Five Decades of Relations between the World Bank and Mexico / Carlos M. Urzua -- 4.The World Bank and Cote D'Ivoire / Jacques Pegatienan, Bakary Ouayogode -- 5.The World Bank in Africa since 1980: The Politics of Structural Adjustment Lending / Carol Lancaster -- 6.U.S. Relations with the World Bank, 1945-1992 / Catherine Gwin -- 7.Japan and the World Bank / Toyoo Gyohten -- 8.The World Bank's Lending in South Asia / S. Guhan -- 9.The World Bank as a Project Lender: Experience from Eastern Africa / Alex Duncan -- 10.The World Bank's European Funding / Hilmar Kopper -- 11.The World Bank and the IMF: A Changing Relationship / Jacques Polak -- 12.The World Bank as "Intellectual Actor" / Nicholas Stern, Francisco Ferreira -- 13.Greening the Bank: The Struggle over the Environment, 1970-1995 / Robert Wade.