The impact that multilateral institutions have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This book is about the role of ideas in such institutions. It is remarkable how little is known about this subject: why some particular ideas are taken up by the multilateral institutions; how they travel within the multilateral system; and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted or resisted. This book seeks to redress this situation by offering perspectives that can be used to critically assess the political processes around some of the ideas that have informed the current development discourse, as evident in the policy prescriptions of the major multilateral institutions.
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Bøås et al. (2004) studied this question.