The World Bank's global policy toward social policies and the social question (1990-2018)

The aim of this paper is to characterize the World Bank's policy towards social policies and the social question during the period from the 1990s to the present. In particular, we seek argue the following idea: during the last two decades the orientation and intervention towards social policies and the social question that the World Bank articulated in the 1990s is consolidated. This is the consolidation of a political orientation that seeks to strengthen social policies and, in particular, assistance policies as instruments of political containment of the mass of poor people resulting from capitalist accumulation, at the same time as it seeks to sustain its minimum productive attributes for the various requirements of such accumulation. For this, methodologically, we will use documents provided by the organization itself, as well as statistical series.