Abstract
Multilateral agencies, such as the World Bank and IADB, have largely
shaped urban policy making world-wide. In most cases, the urban
policy advocated by the multilateral agencies for cities in developing
countries have demanded high investments that have been granted
through loans programs from the Bank to Southern governments. This
paper is about this North-South relations in urban policies. It
investigates the role of multilateral agencies in shifting urban
policy paradigms, with s special reference to the Brazilian case,
by means of discussing the assistance strategies on the urban sector
used by the World Bank and IADB to the country. The main aspects
highlighted in this work are the turning points in urban policy
that have occurred in an panorama in which multilateral agencies
give emphasis to the neo-liberal agendas in the course of adjusting
agendas. The paper presents the issues that arise from these changes.
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