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100 1 $aRich, Bruce.
245 10 $aForeclosing the future :$bthe World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction /$cBruce Rich.
264 1 $aWashington, DC :$bIsland Press,$c[2013]
300 $axvi, 303 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, it is doing just the opposite. By funding development projects and programs that warm the planet and destroy critical natural resources on which the poor depend, the Bank has been hurting the very people it claims to serve. What explains this blatant contradiction?If anyone has the answer, it is arguably Bruce Rich--a lawyer and expert in public international finance who has for the last three decades studied the Bank's institutional contortions, the real-world consequences of its lending, and the politics of the global environmental crisis. What emerges from the bureaucratic dust is a disturbing and gripping story of corruption, larger-than-life personalities, perverse incentives, and institutional amnesia. The World Bank is the Vatican of development finance, and its dysfunction plays out as a reflection of the political hypocrisies and failures of governance of its 188 member countries.Foreclosing the Future shows how the Bank's failure to address the challenges of the 21st Century has implications for everyone in an increasingly interdependent world. Rich depicts how the World Bank is a microcosm of global political and economic trends--powerful forces that threaten both environmental and social ruin. Rich shows how the Bank has reinforced these forces, undercutting the most idealistic attempts at alleviating poverty and sustaining the environment, and damaging the lives of millions. Readers will see global politics on an increasingly crowded planet as they never have before--and come to understand the changes necessary if the World Bank is ever to achieve its mission"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Foreclosing the Future shows how the World Bank's failure to address the challenges of the 21st Century has implications for everyone in an increasingly interdependent world. Rich depicts how the World Bank is a microcosm of global political and economic trends--powerful forces that threaten both environmental and social ruin. Rich shows how the Bank has reinforced these forces, undercutting the most idealistic attempts at alleviating poverty and sustaining the environment, and damaging the lives of millions"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- 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.
610 20 $aWorld Bank.
650 0 $aDevelopment banks$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aEnvironmental policy$xEconomic aspects.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance$xEnvironmental aspects.
650 0 $aEconomic development projects$xEnvironmental aspects.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization.$2bisacsh
650 0 $aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 $aGeography.
650 0 $aClimatic changes.
650 0 $aEnvironmental law.
650 0 $aSustainable development.
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