See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287626073 Financing regional growth and the Inter-American development bank: The case of Argentina Article · January 2013 DOI: 10.4324/9780203073926 CITATIONS READS 10 249 1 author: Ernesto Vivares Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador 25 PUBLICATIONS 80 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Global Political Economy View project ESCUELA DOCTORAL SOBRE REGIONALISMO LATINOAMERICANO, EUROPEO Y COMPARADO View project All content following this page was uploaded by Ernesto Vivares on 04 July 2018. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial institutions, powerful states and capital markets in international development, but there is little understanding of how regional dynamics and regional institutions influence global governance and developing countries. This book offers an independent and grounded investigation concerning the political economic role of Regional DevelopmentDistribution Banks through a study of the world’s leading Regional Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The book examines the politicalfor economy of the IDB and its role in regional and national development during the neoliberalisation processes of the 1990s. In particular, the investigationsNot explore the IDB’s power in regional and national development – via its technical, political and financial interventions – to frame policy alternatives, absorb opposition forces, support specific coalition forces and justify a particular direction of development, all in order to legitimise specific political economicProofs, projects directed by market-led pro-reform coalitions aligned with global financial forces and financial development guidelines. This book will be relevant to scholars and professionals interested in the inter- national and regionalT&F political economy of development financing. Ernesto Vivares is Research Professor in Political Economy and Research Methods, and Head of the International Relations programme at FLACSO Ecuador. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Sheffield, and his research focuses upon the political economy of South American regionalism, development and conflict. 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