The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy.—from the Introduction

The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as glob...