REVIEW: Maritta Koch-Weser, Scott Guggenheim, eds. Social Development in the World Bank. Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

REVIEW: Maritta Koch-Weser, Scott Guggenheim, eds. Social Development in the World Bank. Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

Abstract: The main goal of this review is to present a book that describes the recent history of the World Bank and the contribution of Michael M. Cernea (a sociologist of Romanian origin) to the organizational transformation and adaptation of the World Bank missions. The book is organized in three parts and world-known personalities and World Bank specialists explain not only the organizational adaptation of the World Bank and the way in which social sciences contributed to the structuring of public policies, but also the influence that a social scientist – Michael M. Cernea – had on those proceses.

Keywords: World Bank, social development, Michael M. Cernea, applied sociology, development anthropology.

Citation suggestion: Zulean, Marian; Andrada, Nedelcu. „REVIEW: Maritta Koch-Weser, Scott Guggenheim, eds. Social Development in the World Bank. Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea”. Transilvania, no. 1-2 (2022): 129-131.

https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2022.01-02.17.

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