a brief study on the history of 20th century reveals that capitalist system has been facing to political, military and economic crisis including world wars i and ii, economic crisis of 1929 and 1973, economic crisis of southeast of asia in 90s and the current economic crisis. while theories of international political economy have in common with the occurrence of the crisis itself, they are diff...

While many international organisations have independent evaluations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Health organization (WHO), uniquely the World Bank in its 2015 World Development Report sought to ascertain the potential biases that influence how its staff interpret evidence and influence policy. Here, we describe the World Bank's study design, including experiments ...

This paper analyzes the determinants of multilateral aid from international financial institutions (IFIs) to Pakistan, focusing on the world three major IFIs, the World Bank, the IMF and the ADB. Political economic factors, notably bureaucratic interests and major shareholders economic interests, are suspected to be relevant in international aid allocation decisions. Pooled Tobit estimation ana...

Abstract This article develops the concept of “interorganizational pathologies” as an extension Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore's work on bureaucratic pathologies. Adopting open system perspective, I argue that dysfunctional interactions may arise between international organizations (IOs) even when their cooperation is fairly institutionalized. To advance this line reasoning, examine In...

In 1994 the World Bank and the IMF marked the fiftieth anniversary of their founding meeting at Bretton Woods. The occasion was hardly one of celebration for the two Washington institutions with which official post-war international financial arrangements are most closely identified. For, paradoxically, in the lengthy wake of the Uruguay Round of the GATT, the World Trade Organisation was loomi...

Th e U nfi ni sh ed R ev ol ut io n B rin gi ng O pp or tu ni ty, G oo d Jo bs A nd G re at er W ea lth T o Al l T un isi an s The Unfinished Revolution Bringing Opportunity, Good Jobs And Greater Wealth To All Tunisians Until 2010 Tunisia appeared to be doing well and was heralded by the World Bank and the IMF as a role model for other developing countries, and the World Economic Forum repeate...