Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty

Vetterlein, Antje

doi:10.1080/13563467.2011.569023

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“…We agree with international policy economists such as Broome and Seabrooke (2012, p. 7) who argue that the way IOs do policy and see their member states as objects is a 'cognitive impulse [that] is often built into an IO's mandate'. The impact of the institutional mandate on knowledge is also recognised by Vetterlein (2007aVetterlein ( , 2007bVetterlein ( , 2012. She observes that the dominance of economic knowledge and quantification goes hand in hand with the causal relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction that is established in the WB's mandate (Vetterlein, 2012, p. 52).…”

Section: International Organisations As Strategic Knowledge Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Reframing knowledge: A comparison of OECD and World Bank discourse on public governance reform

Francesco

Guaschino

2019

Policy and Society

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As knowledge producers and transfer agents, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB) rely on their own research infrastructures to promote the dissemination public governance reform. To enhance their authority and legitimacy, they frame their economic knowledge through prominent documents that set the agenda for policy advisory activities and practices. This paper suggests that the influence of epistemic communities on the extent of change in these international organisations' agenda-setting depends on their institutional determinants, namely mandate, knowledge production processes and knowledge validation procedures. Both IOs strategically select their preferred sources of expert knowledge. The OECD refers to technical expertise to enhance its new public management agenda through adjustments. The WB is attuned to economic expertise, resulting in transformations of knowledge frames.

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Section: International Organisations As Strategic Knowledge Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Reframing knowledge: A comparison of OECD and World Bank discourse on public governance reform

Francesco

Guaschino

2019

Policy and Society

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“…Although the World Bank, for example, is sometimes portrayed as consistently favoring a particular approach to economic growth and development, significant differences of opinion exist within the Bank about such matters as the appropriate definition of poverty and the relevance of human rights to the Bank's work. Advocates of particular views within the Bank have used external alliances with NGOs as part of a strategy to try to orient the Bank's work toward their own approach (Sarfaty 2009, Vetterlein 2012.…”

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The Adoption of Transparency Policies in Global Governance Institutions: Justifications, Effects, and Implications

Donaldson

Kingsbury

2013

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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Formal transparency policies are increasingly prevalent in global governance institutions, partially attenuating the influence in these institutions of practices of secrecy inherited from interstate diplomacy. This article assesses the incidence and specific characteristics of formal transparency policies across a select group of institutions and outlines some of the justifications given for these policies-including justifications based on the publicness of these institutions-and for the more controversial exceptions to transparency, such as the exception for deliberative materials. It examines three drivers affecting the adoption, form, and content of transparency policies and other transparency measures in these institutions: spillover from national transparency laws and policies, growth in the reach and significance of authority exercised in and through global institutions, and criticism of global institutions by influential states and nongovernmental organizations. Twelve hypotheses are proposed about the effects, for states, nonstate actors, and global governance institutions, of transparency measures-formal policies and other steps to increase transparency-in global governance institutions. Finally, the article considers some implications of transparency measures for structures of political power and authority beyond the state and for global administrative law.

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“…) is also a source of power in inter-organizational relations. For example, some IOs are perceived to beand see themselvesas 'knowledge organizations' with the capacity to speak authoritatively on certain issues, especially if the organization does significant research on a certain issue itselfsuch as the World Bank with regard to poverty (Vetterlein, 2012).…”

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Evolving Order? Inter-Organizational Relations in the Organizational Field of Food Security Governance in Côte d’Ivoire

Heucher

2019

Forum for Development Studies

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Global food security governance is fraught with fragmentation, overlap and complexity. While calls for coordination and coherence abound, establishing an inter-organizational order at this level seems to remain difficult. While the emphasis in the literature has so far been on the global level, we know less about dynamics of inter-organizational relations in food security governance at the country level, and empirical studies are lacking. It is this research gap the article seeks to address by posing the following research question: In how far does inter-organizational order develop in the organizational field of food security governance at the country level? Theoretically and conceptually, the article draws on sociological institutionalism, and on work on inter-organizational relations. Empirically, the article conducts an exploratory case study of the organizational field of food security governance in Côte d'Ivoire, building on a qualitative content analysis of organizational documents covering a period from 2003 to 2016 and semistructured interviews with staff of international organizations from 2016. The article demonstrates that not all of the developments attributed to food security governance at the global level play out in the same way at the country level. Rather, in the case of Côte d'Ivoire there are signs for a certain degree of coherence between IOs in the field of food security governance and even for analbeit limiteddivision of labour. However, this only holds for specific dimensions of the inter-organizational order and appears to be subject to continuous contestation and reinterpretation under the surface.

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Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty

Cited by 63 publications

References 20 publications

Reframing knowledge: A comparison of OECD and World Bank discourse on public governance reform

Reframing knowledge: A comparison of OECD and World Bank discourse on public governance reform

The Adoption of Transparency Policies in Global Governance Institutions: Justifications, Effects, and Implications

Evolving Order? Inter-Organizational Relations in the Organizational Field of Food Security Governance in Côte d’Ivoire

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