Banking on Knowledge
The Genesis of the Global Development Network

This book is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'knowledge bank'.

Simon James; Erik Johnson; Kao Kim Hourn; Knut knustad; Ivan Krastev; Stella Ladi; Evert Lindquist; Oleg Manaev; Helen Nesadurai; Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos; Alejandro Salas; Diery Seck; Ole Sending; J

Foreword - Diery Seck
Acknowledgments
Part 1 - The GND and Knowledge for Developmen
t 1. The Genesis of the GND - Erik Johnson and Diane Stone
2. Scan Globally, Reinvent Locally - Knowledge infrastructure and the localization of Knowledge - Joseph Stiglitz
3. The Instrumentalization of Development Knowledge - Knut G. Nustad and Ole J. Sending
Part 2 - Civil Society Engagement
4. Think Tanks in
Independent Belarus - Catalysts for social transformations - Oleg Manaev
5. New Partnerships in Research - Activists and think tanks - An illustration from the NCAER in New Delhi - Ratna M. Sudarshan
6. Building Productive Partnerships for the Promotion of Reforms - The APOYO Institute in Peru - Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos and Alejandro Salas
Part 3 - Reform and Reconstruction
7. The Challenges of Intervention for a Cambodian Think Tank - Kao Kim Hourn
8. Post-Communist Think Tanks - Making and Faking Influence - Ivan Krastev
9. Influencing Government Policy Making - Simon James
Part 4 - Knowledge Across Borders
10. Southeast Asian Research Institutes and Regional Economic Cooperation - Helen E. S. Nesadurai and Diane Stone
11. Globalization, Think Tanks, and Policy Transfer - Stella Ladi
12. Think Tanks and the Ecology of Policy Inquiry - Evert Lindquist
13. Conclusion - Knowledge, power and policy - Diane Stone