Part One: Explaining the Policies of the MDBs Chapter One: Susan Park (University of Sydney) and Jonathan R. Strand (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks Chapter Two: Karen Mingst (University of Kentucky), The African Development Bank: Innovator or Follower? Chapter Three: Yasumasa Komori (Michigan State University), The Asian Development Bank: Promoting Good Governance and Anticorruption? Chapter Four: Kenneth J. Retzl (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), The Inter-American Development Bank and the Millennium Development Goals Chapter Five: Anders Uhlin (Lund University), Civil Society and the Liberalization of the Asian Development Bank Chapter Six: Stuart Shields (Manchester University), The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development building Warsaw on the Nile: Lessons from Eastern Central Europe for Egypt's transition. Part Two: The Role of the MDBs in the International Political Economy Chapter Seven: Jonathan R. Strand (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Implications of Accommodating Rising Powers for the Regional Development Banks Chapter Eight: Chris Humphries (University of Zurich), Hassle Factor and Governance: How Non-Financial Costs of MDB Lending are Shaped by Voting Power Chapter Nine: Daniel Braaten (Texas Lutheran University), Human Rights and the MDBs Chapter Ten: Tina Zappile (Richard Stockton College), Beyond the World Bank and Regional Development Banks: Sub-Regional Development Banks Chapter Eleven: Jonathan R. Strand (as above) and Susan Park (as above): The RSDBs in the Twenty-First Century