The World Bank a critical history / Éric Toussaint ; with a contribution by Camille Bruneau ; foreword by Gilbert Achcar.
| Author/creator | Toussaint, Eric |
| Other author | Bruneau, Camille. |
| Other author | Achcar, Gilbert. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; Las Vegas, NV : Pluto Press, 2023. |
| Description | xxix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Banque mondiale. English |
| Contents | 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) |
| Contents | 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) |
| Contents | 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 |
| Contents | 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 |
| Abstract | Authoritative, critical history and analysis of the World Bank from its founding to the present day. |
| General note | Translated from the French. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-380) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780745348308 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023280792 |
| ISBN | 9780745348285 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0745348289 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |