The International Bank in Political Perspective

@article{Baldwin1965TheIB,  title={The International Bank in Political Perspective},  author={David A. Baldwin},  journal={World Politics},  year={1965},  volume={18},  pages={68 - 81},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154278272}}
Although the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been in existence for nearly two decades, the political aspects of its activities have received scant attention. Most of the literature on IBRD operations has been written by economists, who quite naturally emphasize the economic aspects. Political scientists, to the extent that they have discussed it at all, have described most of its operations as removed “from the sphere of international or domestic politics.” The purpose… 

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