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World Bank

A Critical History

Achcar, Gilbert; Toussaint, Eric

Pluto Press

08/2023

432

Dura

Inglês

9780745348285

15 a 20 dias

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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

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Marshall Plan; CADTM; Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt; Foreign Debt; Arab Spring 2011; Debt Crisis; Abolishing the World Bank and IMF; Washington Consensus; Critical history of the World Bank; IMF; Gold Standard; World Economic Order; Bretton Woods Institutions; Neoliberalism; Structural Adjustment; Bretton Woods Conference 1944; World Bank; International Monetary Fund