Abstract

The author explains why he thinks the Global Development Network is so important and why it is that the World Bank has taken such an active role in acting as a catalytic agent in promoting it, and develops some of the underlying epistemology that lies behind the creation of this new institution.

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Stiglitz, Joseph. "Scan Globally, Reinvent Locally: Knowledge Infrastructure and the Localization of Knowledge." In Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network, 24-43. Ed. Diane Stone. London: Routledge, 2000.

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