Robert Wade Japan , the World Bank , and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance : The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective

By Robert H. Wade. 2003

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The success of a policy model: Irrigation management transfer in Mexico (2006, background): “The presentation of favourable quantitative evidence in connection with performance indicators validates the central message of success, appeals to positivist concerns of objectivity, neutrality and preciseness and confers legitimacy and authority (Wade, 1996; Stirrat, 2001).”
Development geography II (2018, background): “…institutions that have previously acted in the interests of expanding and deepening neoliberalization in the Global South, through both normative projection and hegemonic politicoeconomic leverage (e.g. Wade, 1996), are now increasingly acting as handmaidens to intensifying financialization.”
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward (2005, background): “As has been widely noted (Amsden 1994; Berger and Beeson 1998; Wade 1996), the World Bank’s well-known assessment of the region’s success (1993) emphasized the soundness of the region’s macroeconomic fundamentals and downplayed the prevalence of factors, such as industrial policy, that departed…”
The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality* (2002, background): “approaches to state-economy relations (Wade 1996).”
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank (2004, result): “…use grant resources to support work of particular interest to the government, and in many cases related to that government’s own beliefs about development, has also been documented for the case of Japan and its support for the research that went into the Asian Miracle study [Wade, 1996].”
Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus (2010, background): “As part of this, the World Bank had to contain an internal struggle in which Japan sought to incorporate a developmentalist state alternative into the Bank’s development vision (Wade, 1990, 1996; Berger and Beeson, 1998).”
IMF conditionality and development policy space, 1985–2014 (2016, result): “What explains the apparent distance between the IMF’s rhetoric broadcasted in the organization’s Review of Conditionality (IMF 2012b), factsheets, press releases and responses to critics and the actual practice of the policy reforms that the organization designs? We interpret our findings as evidenc”
The Limits to Globalization Theory: A Geographic Perspective on Global Economic Change* (2002, background): “Amid these conflicting perspectives on the origin of the Asian economic crisis—just like the earlier round of explanations for the “East Asian miracle” (see World Bank 1993; Wade 1992; 1996), there is a third explanation that is based on a much more radical Marxist perspective.”
Research, knowledge, and the art of ‘paradigm maintenance’: the World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC) (2006, background): “…DEC’s Research Support).7 Another insider of sorts, Robert Wade, has managed to consult for the Bank but also pen articles that provide fascinating details and insightful analysis; these stand as the seminal academic works on the Bank and ‘the art of paradigm maintenance’(Wade, 1996, 2001, 2002).”