The World Bank : a critical primer /

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The World Bank is a controversial organisation. It is widely viewed with suspicion, as the international economic arm of the US, in thrall to the President who is responsible for appointing the head of the Bank. Eric Toussaint gives a highly readable account of just why the World Bank has become so...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toussaint, Eric (Autor)
Otros Autores: Dropsy, Sylvain (Editor ), Anne, Elizabeth (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2008.
Temas:
World Bank.
Banque mondiale.
Economic assistance > Developing countries > Evaluation.
Conditionality (International relations)
Pays en voie de développement > Influence coloniale.
Aide économique > Pays en voie de développement > Évaluation.
Conditionnalité (Relations internationales)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Banks & Banking.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Colonial influence.
Economic assistance > Evaluation.
Developing countries > Colonial influence.
Developing countries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The creation of the Bretton Woods institutions
  • The first years of the World Bank (1946-62)
  • Difficult beginnings between the UN and the World Bank
  • The post-1945 context : the Marshall Plan and US bilateral aid
  • A bank under the influence
  • World Bank and IMF support of dictatorships
  • The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-90)
  • The World Bank's support of the dictatorship in Turkey
  • The World Bank in Indonesia, a textbook case of intervention
  • The World Bank's theories of development
  • South Korea : the miracle unmasked
  • The debt trap
  • The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming
  • The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank
  • The World Bank and the IMF : the creditors' bailiffs
  • Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-95)
  • James Wolfensohn switches on the charm (1995-2005)
  • Debates in Washington at the start of the twenty-first century
  • The World Bank's accounts
  • Paul Wolfowize, tenth World Bank president
  • Structural adjustment and the Washington concensus : are they things of the past?
  • The World Bank and respect for human rights
  • Time to put an end to World Bank impunity
  • An indictment of the World Bank
  • Appendix: The World Bank group fact sheet
  • Afterword: The World Bank : hands up, this is a hold-up!
  • Glossary.

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