As alterações na política de desenvolvimento do Banco Mundial no contexto das transformações internacionais

Abstract

The World Bank, a multilateral organization established in 1944 as a result of the Bretton Woods Agreements, is an outcome of a specific international circumstance, marked by the rise of the United States as the hegemonic power. This organization was initially constituted to help in the process of rebuilding and development of its members using financing policies. However, the World Bank altered its initial goals during the decades, especially in what concerns its vision of the development process and its action proposals on a global scale. These changes express specific international contexts that resulted, to a large extent, from the management strategies of the world system by the hegemon, in an international environment characterized by interstate rivalry. Assuming this perspective, the general purpose of this article is to examine, in the context of international transformations, the changes that occurred in the way that the World Bank proceeds, observing the most important reorientation moments of its financial policies - mainly after the end of the Cold War.