Foreclosing the future : (Record no. 698925)
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| fixed length control field | 03180cam a2200241 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781610911849 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 333.7137 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Item number | RIC/F |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Rich, Bruce. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Foreclosing the future : |
| Sub Title | the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Bruce Rich. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Washington |
| Name of publisher | Island Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 303 pages ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Development banks |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Environmental policy |
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| Topical Term | Economic assistance |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Economic development projects |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home Library | Current Location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dept. of Environmental Sciences | Dept. of Environmental Sciences | 05/10/2023 | 3148.70 | 333.7137 RIC/F | ES2418 | 05/10/2023 | Book |