Mortgaging the Earth

World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development

Bruce Rich (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

388 Seiten

1994
Earthscan Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85383-221-5 (ISBN)

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This critique of World Bank operations examines the effects of this organization on the societies in which it operates. Highly critical of the Bank's practices in its 50 years of operation, the author demonstrates how the Bank has become virtually unaccountable and a law unto itself. He describes how the Bank has supported oppressive regimes and loaned money to support large projects which have displaced local populations. He argues further that the Bank's current policies of structural adjustment are arresting the development of Third World countries.

Bruce Rich

Chapter 1 The Dwelling Place of the Angels; Chapter 2 Decade of Debacles; Chapter 3 Brave New World at Bretton Woods; Chapter 4 The Faustian Paradox of Robert McNamara; Chapter 5 Greens Lay Siege to the Crystal Palace; Chapter 6 The Emperor’s New Clothes; Chapter 7 The Castle of Contradictions; Chapter 8 From Descartes to Chico Mendes: A Brief History of Modernity as Development; Chapter 9 Who Shall Rule the World—and How?; Chapter 10 What on Earth Is to Be Done?;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1994
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-85383-221-9 / 1853832219
ISBN-13	978-1-85383-221-5 / 9781853832215
Zustand	Neuware