Reviews

“This book offers a well-researched, balanced, and instructive critique of World Bank involvement with university development in Uganda and Thailand. As a former (now retired) World Bank higher education specialist, I have seen numerous assessments of the Bank's work in higher education, but few of these have been informed by field-based fact gathering. A rare resource in this analysis is its combination of in-depth interviews with key staff from the World Bank, beneficiary governments and their universities with a comparison of country case experiences. The result comes as close as any I have seen to penetrating the fog of complexity and contradictory understandings that surround much of the Bank's work on higher education.” - Dr. William Saint, World Bank higher education specialist (retired)