List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Foreword Richard Jolly 1. Introduction: Power and Ideas in Multilateral Institutions - Towards an Interpretative Framework Morten Biäs and Desmond McNeill 2. the Development Discourse in the Multilateral System Knut G. Nustad 3. Contesting Policy Ideas from Below Norman Long 4. the Informal Sector: Biography of an Idea Desmond McNeill 5. Policy Stories and Knowledge-based Regimes: the Case of International Population Policy Ole Jacob Sending 6. the World Bank and the Environment Robert Wade 7.

Sustainable Development and the World Trade Organisation Morten Biäs and Jonas Vevatne 8. Social Capital and the World Bank Desmond McNeill 9. Hegemony, Neo-liberal 'Good Governance' and the International Monetary Fund: A Gramscian Perspective Ian Taylor 10. Balancing between East and West: the Asian Development Bank Policy on Good Governance Janne Jokinen 11. 'Good Governance' and the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) - Ideas and Organisational Constraints Ken Masujima 12. the Evolution of the Concept of Poverty in Multilateral Financial Institutions: the Case of the World Bank Alice Sindzingre 13. the Role of Ideas in the United Nations Development Programme Asuncion Lera St. Clair 14.

the Power of Ideas: Across the Constructivist - Realist Divide James J. Hentz 15. Ideas and Institutions: Who is Framing What? Morten Biäs and Desmond McNeill Bibliography Index.