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000716250 1001_ $$aRich, Bruce,$$eauthor.
000716250 24510 $$aForeclosing the future :$$bthe World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction /$$cBruce Rich.
000716250 264_1 $$aWashington, District of Columbia :$$bIsland Press,$$c[2013]
000716250 264_4 $$c©2013
000716250 300__ $$a1 online resource (321 pages)
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000716250 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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000716250 520__ $$a"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"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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000716250 61020 $$aWorld Bank.
000716250 650_0 $$aDevelopment banks$$xPolitical aspects.
000716250 650_0 $$aEnvironmental policy$$xEconomic aspects.
000716250 650_0 $$aEconomic assistance$$xEnvironmental aspects.
000716250 650_0 $$aEconomic development projects$$xEnvironmental aspects.
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000716250 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aRich, Bruce.$$tForeclosing the future : the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction.$$dWashington, District of Columbia : Island Press, [2013]$$z9781610911849$$w(DLC)10933289
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