TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1986//
TI  - The Doctrine of Economic Neutrality of the IMF and the World Bank
JO  - Journal of peace research
A1  - Swedberg, Richard
SP  - 377
EP  - 390
VL  - 23
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0022-3433
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234338602300406
ID  - ref1
ER  -