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In this chapter, Bazbauers offers the book’s first substantive review of World Bank technical assistance, focusing on technical assistance incorporated as components of lending operations. The chapter provides an overview of how technical assistance components (TACs) changed over time throughout the Bretton Woods, Washington Consensus, and post-Washington Consensus eras. In particular, the chapter highlights rural and urban poverty alleviation projects from the 1970s, structural and sectoral adjustment programs from the 1980s, post-Soviet transition projects from the 1990s, and development policy loans from the 2000s and 2010s. Case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe are used to identify what has led to success and failure, with TACs measured pursuant to the World Bank’s ‘satisfactory’, ‘moderate’, and ‘unsatisfactory’ performance indicators.
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Bazbauers, A.R. (2018). Technical Assistance Components. In: The World Bank and Transferring Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58160-6_4
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