Editor’s Note: In March of 2012, President Obama announced his choice of Dr Jim Yong Kim for Presidency of the World Bank. Dr Kim is the first PhD anthropologist (and medical doctor) to be named to head the World Bank and one of the few anthropologists to work for the Bank, whose leaders and ranks are largely economists. Dr Kim, a medical anthropologist, earned his PhD at Harvard in 1993.
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Open Letter to World Bank President Kim
How Your Anthropology Training Is the Key to the Success of the (Currently Failing) World Bank
David Lempert
Reforming universities in the Middle East
Trends and contestations from Egypt and Jordan
Daniele Cantini
philanthropic foundations in the United States, the World Bank and international lending agencies, UN agencies and regional development banks. In addition, national technical assistance agencies from different European countries (but also the United States
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 74–92 (19 total)
The Devil’s Money
A Multi-level Approach to Acceleration and Turbulence in Oil-Producing Southern Chad
Andrea Behrends and Remadji Hoinathy
ownership and the local level of the region’s people and their experiences. Several actors are brought into focus on each level. On the international level we look at the World Bank policy makers who, together with several governmental and non
The Marketization of HIV/AIDS Governance
Public–Private Partnerships and Bureaucratic Culture in Pakistan
Ayaz Qureshi
The World Bank-financed 'Enhanced HIV and AIDS Control Program' tried to reorganize HIV/AIDS governance in Pakistan by pushing a neoliberal agenda, marketizing the provision of publicly funded HIV prevention services. NGOs and the private sector competed for contracts with the government to provide services to sex workers, drug users, transgendered people and homosexuals who were deemed 'high risk' groups for HIV. With this contractualization emerged a new bureaucratic field that emphasized 'flexible organization' and 'efficiency' in getting things done in place of the traditional bureaucratic proceduralism characteristic of the Pakistani civil service. This new corporate-style bureaucratic culture and the ambiguities of a hastily contracted (and 'efficiently' rolled out) Enhanced Program meant public funds ending up in the pockets of a few powerful actors. Instead of generating more efficiency, the marketization of services dispossessed the intended beneficiaries of the World Bank loan.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–48 (14 total)
The Traveling Model That Would Not Travel
Oil, Empire, and Patrimonialism in Contemporary Chad
Stephen P. Reyna
This article concerns a type of change involving implementation of 'traveling models'—procedural cultural plans of how to do some-thing done somewhere elsewhere. Specifically, it concerns the World Bank's traveling model of oil revenue distribution in support of Chadian development. It finds that this model is failing and that dystopia is developing in its stead. A contrasting explanation, which examines the contradictions and consequences of Chadian patrimonialism and US imperialism, is proposed to account for this state of affairs. Finally, the analysis is shown to have implications for conceptualizing patrimonialism and planning development.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–102 (25 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2020
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 1004–1005 (1 total)
Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda
the coming year (World Bank, Forbes, Reuters), and despite the latest reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on stressful atmospheric conditions, among other environmental discomforts around the planet, we cannot limit our
Sintayehu Kassaye Alemu, Mei Qu, and Zulfa Sakhiyya
skilled people. The number increased to forty thousand between 1975 and 1984. Since 1990, at least twenty thousand qualified Africans have left the continent every year ( UNESCO 2008 ). In 2002, the World Bank estimated that around seventy thousand highly
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 2–31 (30 total)
Austerity in Africa
Audit cultures and the weakening of public sector health systems
James Pfeiffer
-based financing,” among others that have been integrated into the global health lexicon. The heightened emphasis on massive data collection began to dominate global health practice nearly three decades ago and coincides with the publication of the World Bank
Istvan Adorjan
David Harvey, A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 247 pp., 0-19928-327-3 (paperback).
Patrick Bond, Against the global apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and international finance. 2nd ed. London and New York: Zed Books, 2003. 326 pp, 1-84277-393-3 (paperback).