El Paper del Banc Mundial en educació: la història d'una creixent hegemonia = The World Bank's role in education: the history of a progressive hegemony

The World Bank (WB) is a key agent in the field of the international educational
development. It is one of the main funders of education at international level and at
the same time it is one of the organisms with more power for setting the educational
priorities in a global scale. In spite of the large influence it has nowadays in the educational
file, it was created with objectives and roles not related at all to education. In
this context, the objective of the article is to analyse the WBs evolution from its creation
until nowadays, exploring its role and its proposals in the educational field during
more than forty years. The article analyses those stages and documents most significant
in the history of the WB for understanding its current role in the educational
sector, the content of its proposals in the sector and the process by which it placed
itself as the hegemonic organism in the field of education.