@article{ref1,
title="The Doctrine of Economic Neutrality of the IMF and the World Bank",
journal="Journal of peace research",
year="1986",
author="Swedberg, Richard",
volume="23",
number="4",
pages="377-390",
abstract="According to their articles of agreements the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are only allowed to take economic considerations into account when making a decision. This essay argues that this stance -- here labelled the doctrine of economic neutrality -- constitutes the main ideology of the IMF and the World Bank. The two major assumptions of the doctrine -- that politics can be kept out of the Fund and the Bank, and that decisions can be made on neutral, economic grounds in these two orga nizations -- are examined in detail and rejected as false. The essay ends with a suggestion about the real function of the doctrine of economic neutrality: to provide an ideological smokescreen for the powerful Western nations to intervene in favor of free trade capitalism in the domestic affairs of third world coun tries.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-3433",
doi="10.1177/002234338602300406",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234338602300406"
}