The true nature of the World Bank

By Marcia Annisette. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Critically Appreciating Social Accounting and Reporting in the Arab MiddleEast: A Postcolonial Perspective (2007, background): “the IMF andWorld Bank in promoting ‘international accounting standards’, Annisette (2004) argues, requires an ‘‘urgent critical enquiry into the role of these ‘‘international’’ standards in a development context’’.”
• Management accounting in less developed countries: what is known and needs knowing (2009, background): “However, Annisette (2004) claims this ignores institutional pressures on the Bank to manage the global economy on private international capital’s behalf.”
• Public sector management accounting in emerging economies: A literature review (2016, background): “…by the preferred market-based ‘development discourse’ and sponsored by international donor agencies, has been receiving increasing attention from academics and policy makers over the last two decades (Allen, 2009; Annisette, 2004; Manning, 2001; Polidano, 1999; Reichard, 2004; Schick, 1998).”
• Dissemination and institutionalization of public sector accounting reforms in less developed countries: A comparative study of the Nepalese and Sri Lankan central governments (2013, background): “In addition, prior tudies have demonstrated how the colonial powers strove to impose capitalistic accounting systems in their colonies so s to extract, accumulate, and allocate economic surpluses (Annisette & Neu, 2004; Bakre, 2008). A study by Wijewardena nd Yapa (1998) demonstrates that Sri Lanka,”
• In Pursuit of Global Regulation: Changing Governance and Accountability Structures at the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) (2006, background): “Some such bodies, like the World Bank, are clearly being studied in some depth by accounting researchers (see Annisette, 2004; Graham and Neu, 2003), while other accounting bodies such as the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are now starting to be analysed by political scientists.”
• Globalisation, accounting and developing countries (2017, background): “…finance-led capitalism, and that such policies are inappropriate for a ‘socially responsible’ institution like the WB (Saravanamuthu, 2004), although Annisette (2004) claimed that was a naive interpretation, for it neglects the financial and institutional pressures driving the WB’s pursuit of…”
• The global institutionalization of financial reporting: The case of the United Arab Emirates (2008, background): “A major player in world capital markets, the World Bank and its sister organization, the IMF, are “deeply embedded in the structures of capitalism” (Annisette, 2004, p. 316), providing loans and assisting in economic development, arguably from beneficial motives.”