Screen LibraryForeclosing the future : the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction /
"Foreclosing the Future shows how the World Bank's failure to address the challenges of the 21st Century has implications for everyone in an increasingly interdependent world. Rich depicts how the World Bank is a microcosm of global political and economic trends--powerful forces that threa...
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Island Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, DC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Foreclosing the Future shows how the World Bank's failure to address the challenges of the 21st Century has implications for everyone in an increasingly interdependent world. Rich depicts how the World Bank is a microcosm of global political and economic trends--powerful forces that threaten both environmental and social ruin. Rich shows how the Bank has reinforced these forces, undercutting the most idealistic attempts at alleviating poverty and sustaining the environment, and damaging the lives of millions"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781610911849 (hardback) : 1610911849 (cloth) |
| Index Number: | HG3881 |
| CLC: | F831-05 |
| Call Number: | F831-05/R498 |
| Contents: |
Tiger talk -- Present at the creation -- "I can change the approval culture to an effectiveness culture" -- High risk, high reward -- The logic was textbook perfect -- Backwards into the future -- The brief, broken presidency of Paul Wolfowitz -- The carbon caravan -- A market like no other -- Financializing development -- Dying for growth -- What does it take? |