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Book SynopsisHow the World Bank has become a new colonial authority, in everything but name
Trade Review'Studies the evolution of the debt of Southern countries with painstaking precision and patience' -- Jean Ziegler, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Author of numerous books, including L‚empire de la honte (The Empire of Shame), 2005.
'Eric Toussaint has once again provided absolutely critical information. Anyone concerned with how excessive Northern wealth flows from sustained Southern poverty needs this analysis' -- Patrick Bond, Director, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa
Table of ContentsAbout this book
Terminology
Introduction
1. The creation of the Bretton Woods institutions
2. The first years of the World Bank (1946-1962)
3. Difficult beginnings between the UN and the World Bank
4. The post-World War II context - the Marshall Plan and US bilateral aid
5. A Bank under the influence
6. World Bank and IMF support of dictatorships
7. The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-1990)
8. The World Bank's support of the dictatorship in Turkey
9. The Bank in Indonesia: a textbook case of intervention
10. The World Bank's theories on development
11. South Korea: the miracle unmasked
12. The debt trap
13. The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming
14. The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank
15. The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors' bailiffs
16. Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-1995)
17. James Wolfensohn switches on the charm (1995-2005)
18. Debates in Washington at the start of the twenty-first century
19. The World Bank's accounts
20. Paul Wolfowitz, 10th World Bank President
21. Structural adjustment and the Washington Consensus: are they things of the past?
22. The World Bank and the respect of human rights
23. Time to put an end to World Bank impunity
24. An indictment of the World Bank
Afterword: Interview with Eric Toussaint
Notes
Bibliography
Index
