Eric Toussaint

The World Bank (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Primer

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849643764
• Artikelnr.: 39934614

Autorenporträt

Eric Toussaint is president of the Brussels-based Committee for Cancellation of the Third World Debt and is a Fellow and frequent lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam. He edits the journal Les Autres Voix de la Planete and is the author of The World Bank (Pluto, 2007) and Your Money or Your Life! (Pluto, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Terminology: South/North - Developing/Developed. Just What Are We Talking
About?
Chapter 1 - The Origins of the Bretton Woods Institutions
Chapter 2 - The First Years of the World Bank (1946-1962)
Chapter 3 - Difficult Beginnings Between the Un and the World Bank
Chapter 4 -The Post-world War II Context - the Marshall Plan and the London
Agreement on
Germany's Debt
Chapter 5 - A Bank Under Influence
Chapter 6 -World Bank and IMF Support for Dictatorships
Chapter 7 - The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-1990)
Chapter 8 - The World Bank's Support for the Dictatorship in Turkey
Chapter 9 - The Bank in Indonesia: a Textbook Case of Intervention
Chapter 10 - The World Bank's Theoretical Falsehoods Regarding Development
Chapter 11 - South Korea: the "miracle" Unmasked
Chapter 12 - The Debt Trap
Chapter 13 - The World Bank Saw the Debt Crisis Looming
Chapter 14 - The Mexican Debt Crisis and the World Bank
Chapter 15 - The World Bank and the IMF: the Creditors' Enforcers
Chapter 16 - Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-1995)
Chapter 17 - Rwanda: the Genocide's Financiers
Chapter 18 - James Wolfensohn Switches on the Charm (1995-2005)
Chapter 19 - Debates in Washington at the Start of the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 20 - Structural Adjustment and the Washington Consensus Were Not
Abandoned in 2000
Chapter 21 - Climate and the Environmental Crisis: Sorcerer's Apprentices
at the World Bank and the IMF
Chapter 22 - Paul Wolfowitz (2005-2007): an Architect of the Invasion of
Iraq at the Head of the World Bank
Chapter 23 - Ecuador: Progress and the Limits of Resistance to the Policies
of the World Bank, the IMF and Other Creditors
Chapter 24 - The US President's Men Keep Control of the World Bank
Chapter 25 - The IMF and the World Bank in the Time of Coronavirus: the
Failed Campaign for a New Image
Chapter 26 - The World Bank Did Not Foresee the Arab Spring Popular
Uprisings and Still Promotes the Very Same Policies That Triggered Them
Chapter 27 - The "Gender Equity" Farce: a Feminist Reading of World Bank
Policies
Chapter 28 - The World Bank and Human Rights
Chapter 29 - Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity
Chapter 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 (IMF): an ABC Glossary
Bibliography of Works Cited
Works by Eric Toussaint Published in English
Table of Tables
Table of Graphs