Alex Wilks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6324181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Wilks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilks |
| SIGNATURE | WILKS A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Adam Smith Institute to the Zapatistas
This article critically examines a major World Bank Internet initiative, the Development Gateway. It describes the importance of the World Bank as the Knowledge Bank and the threats posed by the Internet to its near monopoly of development thinking. The Bank's Gateway plan attempts to bring together views of all stakeholders on a large number of topics at both global and country level. The article argues that this effort is naive, impossible and …
The Process of Preparing World Development Reports
The World Bank's World Development Reports are written and marketed giving the impression that they convey broadly held views and contain objective research. Many civil society organisations, however, feel that they are selective and biased and that the Bank sees them largely as a tool for selfpromotion and self-justification. As a result the Reports are unbalanced and lack independent analysis, especially of the Bank's own actions. This
An Effective State? But Effective for Whom
Neoliberal rhetoric has urged the reduction of the state's role, but in many ways state power and spending have merely been redirected rather than reduced. WDR97 urges states to become effective, but does not say for whom. The World Bank's biases are seen in the WDR's economistic approach to political issues, limited view of participation, blindness to corporate power and support for the use of international mechanisms to lock in government polic…
From the Adam Smith Institute to the Zapatistas
This article critically examines a major World Bank Internet initiative, the Development Gateway. It describes the importance of the World Bank as the Knowledge Bank and the threats posed by the Internet to its near monopoly of development thinking. The Bank's Gateway plan attempts to bring together views of all stakeholders on a large number of topics at both global and country level. The article argues that this effort is naive, impossible and …
An Effective State? But Effective for Whom
Neoliberal rhetoric has urged the reduction of the state's role, but in many ways state power and spending have merely been redirected rather than reduced. WDR97 urges states to become effective, but does not say for whom. The World Bank's biases are seen in the WDR's economistic approach to political issues, limited view of participation, blindness to corporate power and support for the use of international mechanisms to lock in government polic…
The Process of Preparing World Development Reports
The World Bank's World Development Reports are written and marketed giving the impression that they convey broadly held views and contain objective research. Many civil society organisations, however, feel that they are selective and biased and that the Bank sees them largely as a tool for selfpromotion and self-justification. As a result the Reports are unbalanced and lack independent analysis, especially of the Bank's own actions. This
An Effective State? But Effective for Whom
Neoliberal rhetoric has urged the reduction of the state's role, but in many ways state power and spending have merely been redirected rather than reduced. WDR97 urges states to become effective, but does not say for whom. The World Bank's biases are seen in the WDR's economistic approach to political issues, limited view of participation, blindness to corporate power and support for the use of international mechanisms to lock in government polic…
From the Adam Smith Institute to the Zapatistas
This article critically examines a major World Bank Internet initiative, the Development Gateway. It describes the importance of the World Bank as the Knowledge Bank and the threats posed by the Internet to its near monopoly of development thinking. The Bank's Gateway plan attempts to bring together views of all stakeholders on a large number of topics at both global and country level. The article argues that this effort is naive, impossible and …
Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · World Wide Web (2 works) · Blindness (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Commons (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work)