By Catherine Weaver
As the preeminent foreign improvement enterprise for the previous sixty years, the realm financial institution has attracted equivalent quantities of feedback and compliment. Critics are particularly fast to decry the realm Bank's hypocrisy--the pervasive gaps among the organization's speak, judgements, and activities. within the wake of the Paul Wolfowitz management scandal in might 2006, perceptions of hypocrisy have exacted a heavy toll at the Bank's authority and fueled powerful calls for for wide-scale reform. but what precisely does the hypocrisy of the area financial institution seem like, and what or who factors it? In Hypocrisy Trap, Catherine Weaver explores how the features of swap in a fancy foreign association make hypocrisy tough to solve, particularly after its publicity turns into a severe chance to the organization's legitimacy and survival.
utilizing a wealthy sociological version and a number of other years of box examine, Weaver delves into the political and cultural worlds inside of and out of doors of the financial institution to discover the tensions that incite and perpetuate prepared hypocrisy. She examines the resources and dynamics of hypocrisy within the severe situations of the Bank's governance and anticorruption schedule, and its contemporary Strategic Compact reorganization. the 1st booklet to resolve the puzzle of equipped hypocrisy relating to reform on the global financial institution, Hypocrisy Trap eventually enriches our knowing of tradition, habit, and alter in overseas organizations.
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2003, 545 n. 6. See also Ghosh 1994 on conducting ethnographies of IOs. Introduction: Hypocrisy and Change • 15 a pervasive sense of insecurity, stemming in part from the intolerance of open dissent, which compels most people to prefer anonymity or to speak off the record. ” Those who requested such anonymity are not named in the list of interviewees at the end of this book, but I am grateful for their candor. Conducting ethnographic research on the Bank may in fact be easier today than in the past, for three key reasons.
Other observers are less likely to jump to such conclusions. There is a natural tendency to apply Justice Stewart’s pornography standard to hypocrisy: we know it when we see it. One way to avoid this arbitrary subjectivity is to refrain from identifying hypocrisy without substantial evidence and agreement from multiple sources. In this book, I have sought verification of my evaluations from a balance of sources, including NGOs, official Bank reports, and interviews with staff. I also directed due attention to discerning where hypocrisy was expanding or disappearing, by looking for evidence of changes in behavior.
26 World Bank Operations Evaluation Department 2001a, 2, 18. 26 • Chapter 2 This brief overview of the Bank’s environmental agenda illustrates the difficulty of aligning the Bank’s action with its green talk. Critically, the evidence reveals that both external and internal pressures contributed to policy incompliance and mainstreaming shortfalls. At some points, that hypocrisy appears intentional, particularly in the period when management made little effort to allocate needed resources and authority to environmental staff.