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