World Bank Accountability

Andria Naude Fourie has worked as a business consultant and academic researcher in South Africa, Europe and the United States; and holds degrees in law and business from the University of Pretoria and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her doctoral research focused on the World Bank's Inspection Panel - for which she was awarded a Ph.D. (public international law) by Erasmus University in 2009 (cum laude). She continues to be intrigued by the changing international legal order and the role of non-state actors therein.

Introduction; 1. Towards a Comprehensive Shared Understanding on World Bank Accountability - in Theory and Practice; 2. Conceptual Models Facilitating Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Discourse; Part I Conceptualizing World Bank Accountability; 3. 'To Whom' Should the World Bank be Accountable? 'Power Wielders' and 'Accountability Holders'; 4. What Should the World Bank be Accountable 'For'?; 5. Assessing Accountability: Compliance with Normative Frameworks; 6. Assessing Accountability: Accountability Mechanisms and Competing Approaches to Compliance; 7 Ensuring Accountability: Realizing and Enforcing Specific Outcomes, Aligning Various Accountability Dimensions; Part II Operationalizing World Bank Accountability Segment A Systemic Issues - Cutting Across Policy Areas; 8. World Bank and Borrower Obligations - in Development Practice; 9. Achieving EquilibriumAmongInstitutional Aims: 'Technical/Commercial' versus 'Non-technical/Non-commercial' Project Components; 10. Decisions Determining Project Content and Scope - Affecting the Content and Scope of World Bank Accountability; 11. Access to Information and Participation in Decision-Making - at the Project Level Segment B Compliance Issues in Critical Operational Policy Areas; 12. Involuntary Resettlement; 13. Indigenous Peoples; 14. Environmental Assessment; 15. Project Supervision; Conclusion; 16. A Shared Commitment, a Shared Goal - and a Shared Surface.