| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 390 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"In 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference ushered in a new international economic order. The World Bank emerged as one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world, and a new colonial authority in all but name. But how does it operate, who funds it, and what agenda does it work to promote? In The World Bank: A Critical History, Eric Toussaint answers all of these questions and more. Offering up a highly readable yet uniquely authoritative account, the book analyses the World Bank from its beginnings to the present day. Chapters on gender, climate and the pandemic era complement the peerless research that informed Toussaint's 2007 classic, The World Bank: A Critical Primer, and provide the reader with a truly contemporary, definitive text"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Éric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist with a PhD from the Universities of Paris VIII and Liège |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
World Bank -- History
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World Bank -- Evaluation
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| SUBJECT |
World Bank. fast (OCoLC)fst00531892 |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Developing countries
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Evaluation.
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Poverty.
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Developing countries.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruneau, Camille, contributor.
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Achcar, Gilbert, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780745348292 |
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0745348297 |
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9780745348308 |
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0745348300 |
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