Beyond neoliberalism: Reflections on capitalism and education

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J Klees
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Inequalities

Education within capitalism too often reproduces social and economic inequalities. Schools are depicted as failing and teachers are blamed. In this paper, I examine the discourses underlying this situation and the role of foundations in the US and the World Bank in developing countries in maintaining it. I look at the neoliberal remedy of privatization and the fundamental problems with capitalism. In conclusion, I consider alternatives to capitalism and within education.

Conference on the Role of Industrialisation in Developing Countries

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-442
Author(s):  
Ronald Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

At the fourth Cambridge conference on development problems, the role of industry was discussed by ministers, senior officials, economic advisers, and business executives, from 22 African, Asian, and Caribbean countries, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Have some, if not all, of Africa's new nations now reached the stage when it would pay them to put their biggest bets on quick industrialisation? Or must they go on putting most of their money and brains into bringing about an agricultural revolution first, before striving for industrial take-off? These questions started the conference off on one of its big themes.

Customer Orientation in the Context of Development Projects: Insights from the World Bank

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debabrata Talukdar ◽  
Sumila Gulyani ◽  
Lawrence F. Salmen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Marketing Principles

Approximately half of the world's current population lives in poverty, and more than 90% of those people live in developing countries with limited access to basic social and economic amenities. Mired in such widespread poverty, developing countries thus appear to offer little opportunity for the traditional role of marketing to facilitate the monetized exchange of private goods. However, as this synthesized review of the practice of customer orientation at the World Bank shows, fundamental marketing principles and practices play an important role in incorporating the voice and interest of the poor in the provision of public goods that are designed to improve their quality of life and standard of living. This role for marketing in developing economies helps create the necessary socioeconomic infrastructure to facilitate the emergence of vibrant exchange markets for private goods in which the traditional role of marketing plays out. This article helps develop a better appreciation of a typically overlooked dimension in marketing's relationship to society in developing countries.

Robert L. Ayers. Banking on the Poor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 1983. 255pp.Appendices; notes; index.

1983 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-309
Author(s):  
Aftab Ahmad Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Maximum Growth ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War

This book is about "Robert McNamara's efforts to reorient the World Bank towards a more explicit concern with poverty alleviation in the world's poor countries." The World Bank is one of the most important (and probably the biggest) financial institutions which have been providing both technical and financial assistance to many developing countries for more than thirty years. The traditional role of the Bank has been that of helping the developing countries in their process of development by providing loans for projects with maximum growth effects. For quite a number of years in the post-war period these loans were granted mainly for infrastructure projects which were considered a prerequisite for development. An evaluation of such projects was relatively easy as their effects on the rest of the economy were easily quantifiable. Loans for social-overhead projects received relatively low priority as their output was not directly measurable and the element of risk was also high in such loans.

The New Role of the World Bank

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Andrew Clemens ◽  
Michael R. Kremer
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World
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