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The World Bank : a critical history /
Authoritative, critical history and analysis of the World Bank from its founding to the present day.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Las Vegas, NV :
Pluto Press,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Terminology: South/North
- Developing/Developed. Just What Are We Talking About?
- Introduction
- 1 The Origins of the Bretton Woods Institutions
- 2 The First Years of the World Bank (1946-62)
- 3 Difficult Beginnings between the UN and the World Bank
- 4 The Post-1945 Context: The Marshall Plan and the London Agreement on Germany's Debt
- 5 A Bank Under the Influence
- 6 World Bank and IMF Support for Dictatorships
- 7 The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-90)
- 8 The World Bank's Support for the Dictatorship in Turkey
- 9 The Bank in Indonesia: A Textbook Case of Intervention
- 10 The World Bank's Theoretical Falsehoods Regarding Development
- 11 South Korea: The 'Miracle' Unmasked
- 12 The Debt Trap
- 13 The World Bank Sees the Debt Crisis Looming
- 14 The Mexican Debt Crisis and the World Bank
- 15 The World Bank and the IMF: The Creditors' Enforcers
- 16 Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-95)
- 17 Rwanda: The Genocide's Financiers
- 18 James Wolfensohn Switches on the Charm (1995-2005)
- 19 Debates in Washington at the Start of the Twenty-first Century
- 20 Structural Adjustment and the Washington Consensus Are Not Abandoned in 2000
- 21 Climate and the Environmental Crisis: Sorcerer's Apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
- 22 Paul Wolfowitz (2005-07): An Architect of the Invasion of Iraq at the Head of the World Bank
- 23 Ecuador: Progress and the Limits of Resistance to the Policies of the World Bank, the IMF and Other Creditors
- 24 The US President's Men Keep Control of the World Bank
- 25 The World Bank and the Arab Spring
- 26 The IMF and the World Bank in the Time of Coronavirus: The Failed Campaign for a New Image
- 27 The 'Gender Equity' Farce: A Feminist Reading of World Bank Policies
- 28 The World Bank and Human Rights
- 29 Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity
- 30 The Case for Abolishing and Replacing the IMF and the World Bank
- Annexes
- Annex 1: The World Bank: An ABC
- Annex 2: The International Monetary Fund: An ABC
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Works by Éric Toussaint Published in English
- Index