The World Bank : A Critical History / Éric Toussaint ; with a contribution by Camille Bruneau ; foreword by Gilbert Achcar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toussaint, Eric, author.

Contributor:

Bruneau, Camille, contributor.

Achcar, Gilbert, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

World Bank--History.

World Bank.

World Bank--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, [2023]

Summary:

Authoritative, critical history and analysis of the World Bank from its founding to the present day.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Terminology: South/North - Developing/Developed. Just What Are We Talking About?

Introduction

1 The Origins of the Bretton Woods Institutions

2 The First Years of the World Bank (1946-62)

3 Difficult Beginnings between the UN and the World Bank

4 The Post-1945 Context: The Marshall Plan and the London Agreement on Germany's Debt

5 A Bank Under the Influence

6 World Bank and IMF Support for Dictatorships

7 The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-90)

8 The World Bank's Support for the Dictatorship in Turkey

9 The Bank in Indonesia: A Textbook Case of Intervention

10 The World Bank's Theoretical Falsehoods Regarding Development

11 South Korea: The 'Miracle' Unmasked

12 The Debt Trap

13 The World Bank Sees the Debt Crisis Looming

14 The Mexican Debt Crisis and the World Bank

15 The World Bank and the IMF: The Creditors' Enforcers

16 Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-95)

17 Rwanda: The Genocide's Financiers

18 James Wolfensohn Switches on the Charm (1995-2005)

19 Debates in Washington at the Start of the Twenty-first Century

20 Structural Adjustment and the Washington Consensus Are Not Abandoned in 2000

21 Climate and the Environmental Crisis: Sorcerer's Apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF

22 Paul Wolfowitz (2005-07): An Architect of the Invasion of Iraq at the Head of the World Bank

23 Ecuador: Progress and the Limits of Resistance to the Policies of the World Bank, the IMF and Other Creditors

24 The US President's Men Keep Control of the World Bank

25 The World Bank and the Arab Spring

26 The IMF and the World Bank in the Time of Coronavirus: The Failed Campaign for a New Image.

27 The 'Gender Equity' Farce: A Feminist Reading of World Bank Policies

28 The World Bank and Human Rights

29 Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity

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: An ABC

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Glossary

Bibliography

Works by Éric Toussaint Published in English

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Toussaint, Eric The World Bank

ISBN:

9780745348292

0745348297

9780745348308

0745348300

OCLC:

1431978710