Banking on Knowledge is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'Knowledge Bank'. The book addresses how international organizations and governments are developing partnerships with think tanks, research institutes and other knowledge institutions in the hope of informing and improving policies for reform and development around the world.The book focuses on the recently established Global Development Network (GDN). The GDN is a new and ambitious initiative, sponsored by the World Bank, which is possibly the largest worldwide non-governmental enterprise aimed at producing knowledge as a public good on a global scale. Timely, original and provocative, this book is essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers and professionals with an interest in the future of the World Bank, the strategies of think tanks and the changing nature of development.
Author(s): Diane Stone
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 8
Prologue by Lyn Squire......Page 12
Foreword by Diery Seck......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 16
List of abbreviations......Page 17
The GDN and knowledge for development......Page 20
The genesis of the GDN......Page 22
Scan globally, reinvent locally: knowledge infrastructure and the localisation of knowledge......Page 43
The instrumentalisation of development knowledge......Page 63
Civil society engagement......Page 82
Think tanks in independent Belarus: catalysts for social transformation......Page 84
New partnerships in research: activists and think tanks. An illustration from the NCAER in New Delhi......Page 106
Building productive partnerships for the promotion of reform: the APOYO Institute in Peru......Page 123
Reform and reconstruction......Page 142
The challenges of intervention for Cambodian think tanks......Page 144
Post-communist think tanks: making and faking influence......Page 161
Influencing government policy making......Page 181
Knowledge across borders......Page 200
Southeast Asian research institutes and regional cooperation......Page 202
Globalisation, think tanks and policy transfer......Page 222
Think tanks and the ecology of policy inquiry......Page 240
Conclusion......Page 258
Knowledge, power and policy......Page 260
Index......Page 278
