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Foreclosing the future : the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction /

"World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, it is doing just the opposite. By funding de...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rich, Bruce
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2013]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms
  • 1. Tiger Talk
  • 2. Present at the Creation
  • 3. I Can Change the Approval Culture to an Effectiveness Culture
  • 4. High Risk, High Reward
  • 5. The Logic Was Textbook Perfect
  • 6. Backwards into the Future
  • 7. The Brief, Broken Presidency of Paul Wolfowitz
  • 8. The Carbon Caravan
  • 9. A Market Like No Other
  • 10. Financializing Development
  • 11. Dying for Growth
  • 12. What Does It Take?
  • Notes
  • Index.