World Bank

A Critical Primer

AvÉric Toussaint

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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The World Bank is a controversial organisation. It is widely viewed with suspicion, as the international economic arm of the US, in thrall to the President who is responsible for appointing the head of the Bank.Eric Toussaint gives a highly readable account of just why the World Bank has become so powerful. In short, clear chapters he shows how the bank operates, who funds it, and what it sets out to promote. The Bank's main purpose is to grant loans to all the newly independent states of the developing world, to help them on their journey to recovery after colonial occupation. In reality, the conditions imposed on these states - including enforced privatisation of all public services, and enforced neo-liberal rules on trade - mean that the Bank has become the new colonial authority in everything but name.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-12-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 19 mm
Vikt:412 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745327136

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Éric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist with a PhD from the Universities of Paris VIII and Liège. He is spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) of which he is one of the founding members. He took part in the process that launched the World Social Forum in 2001. He is the author of numerous books, including The Debt System; Bankocracy, and Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.

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'Studies the evolution of the debt of Southern countries with painstaking precision and patience'

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About this book TerminologyIntroduction 1. The creation of the Bretton Woods institutions 2. The first years of the World Bank (1946-1962)3. Difficult beginnings between the UN and the World Bank 4. The post-World War II context - the Marshall Plan and US bilateral aid5. A Bank under the influence6. World Bank and IMF support of dictatorships 7. The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-1990)8. The World Bank's support of the dictatorship in Turkey9. The Bank in Indonesia: a textbook case of intervention10. The World Bank's theories on development 11. South Korea: the miracle unmasked12. The debt trap13. The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming14. The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank15. The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors' bailiffs16. Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-1995)17. James Wolfensohn switches on the charm (1995-2005) 18. Debates in Washington at the start of the twenty-first century19. The World Bank's accounts20. Paul Wolfowitz, 10th World Bank President 21. Structural adjustment and the Washington Consensus: are they things of the past?22. The World Bank and the respect of human rights23. Time to put an end to World Bank impunity24. An indictment of the World BankAfterword: Interview with Eric ToussaintNotesBibliographyIndex