should be of particular interest and use to advanced undergraduate students and scholars.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Morten Bøås, Desmond McNeill; Chapter 2 The development discourse in the multilateral system, Knut G. Nustad; Chapter 3 Contesting policy ideas from below, Norman Long; Chapter 4 The informal sector, Desmond McNeill; Chapter 5 Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes, Ole Jacob Sending; Chapter 6 The World Bank and the environment, Robert Wade; Chapter 7 Sustainable development and the World Trade Organization, Morten Bøås, Jonas Vevatne; Chapter 8 Social capital and the World Bank, Desmond McNeill; Chapter 9 Hegemony, neoliberal 'good governance' and the International Monetary Fund, Ian Taylor; Chapter 10 Balancing between East and West, Janne Jokinen; Chapter 11 'Good governance' and the Development Assistance Committee, Ken Masujima; Chapter 12 The evolution of the concept of poverty in multilateral financial institutions, Alice Sindzingre; Chapter 13 The role of ideas in the United Nations Development Programme, Asuncion Lera St Clair; Chapter 14 The power of ideas, James J. Hentz; Chapter 15 Ideas and institutions, Morten Bøås, Desmond McNeill;

Morten Bøås is a Researcher at Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway.,
Desmond McNeill is Research Professor, and former Director, at the SUM (Centre for Development and the Environment), University of Oslo, Norway.