Foreword Part I: Preliminaries and Principles 1 The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research, by Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Ben Fine and Kate Bayliss 2 A Knowledge Bank? by Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Ben Fine Part II: Research in Practice 3 Understanding Aid at the Bank, by Elisa Van Waeyenberge 4 A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation, by Kate Bayliss 5 Social Capital and Health, by Ben Fine 6 World Bank Research on HIV/AIDS: Praise Where It's Due?, by Deborah Johnston 7 Agriculture in the World Bank: Blighted Harvest Persists, by Carlos Oya 8 A Policy Wrapped in "Analysis" - The World Bank's Case for Foreign Banks, by Paulo L dos Santos 9 Hard Science or Waffly Crap? Evidence-Based Policy versus Policy Based Evidence in the Field of Violent Conflict, by Christopher Cramer and Jonathan Goodhand 10 The Washington Consensus and the China Anomaly, by Dic Lo Part III: Continuity or Change? 11 Whither World Bank Research?, by Ben Fine, Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Kate Bayliss References Index.