Oriente

<p>As pillars of the post-1945 international economic system the Regional (and Sub-Regional) Development Banks (RDBs) have long been considered mini-World Banks reiterating the policy approach of the largest official multilateral development lender in the The main objective of the collection is to identify what role the RDBs play in global economic governance and </p><p>This edited collection draws together cutting edge original research on these understudied In the burgeoning sub-field of global economic governance as well as the broader study of international organisations (IOs) too often the focus remains on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Second-order IOs such as the RDBs receive much less attention despite their longevity and regional This volume corrects this oversight by bringing together research on the RDBs that interrogates the role and impact of these organisations in global economic </p><p>The book investigates: the African Development Bank (AfDB); the Asian Development Bank (AsDB); the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and select sub-regional development banks in comparison to the World It will be of great interest to students and scholars of IPE IR and Development Studies.</p>