World Bank as a Knowledge Producer - Full Study

The World Bank as a Knowledge Producer

How the Bank Uses Flawed Processes to Generate Unsound Knowledge for Promoting Disastrous Policies

Book, Pages: 96, Cost: Rs. 100.00

This study examines the World Bank’s role as a knowledge producer in context of the water sector in India.

World Bank as a Knowledge Provider

It looks at the Bank’s knowledge producing machinery at the global level, and in India. It presents several case studies of the use of knowledge by the Bank to promote and justify specific policies. These illustrate how the Bank is using flawed processes to generate unsound knowledge, to push its desired policies, policies that are likely to have disastrous consequences. It draws out an overall critique of the Knowledge Provider role of the Bank.

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