Foreclosing the Future The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction /

• Main Author: Rich, Bruce. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environment.; Economic geography.; Public international law.; Climate change.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Sustainable development.; Climate Change.; Public International Law.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Sustainable Development.; Economic Geography.
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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, too often it does just the opposite. By funding de...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms
• 1. Tiger Talk
• 2. Present at the Creation
• 3. ỚSI Can Change the Approval Culture to an Effectiveness CultureỚ<U+00fd>
• 4. High Risk, High Reward
• 5. The Logic Was Textbook Perfect
• 6. Backwards into the Future
• 7. The Brief, Broken Presidency of Paul Wolfowitz
• 8. The Carbon Caravan
• 9. A Market Like No Other
• 10. Financializing Development
• 11. Dying for Growth
• 12. What Does It Take?
• Notes
• Index.