Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the story of one man's experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.
'The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty' presents a selection of essays prepared for the Group of Twenty-Four Developing Nations (G24), by some of the foremost authorities in their fields, which address these challenges and suggest the need for reform in several areas. These essays have one fundamental aim: to improve the functioning of the global economy and to better enable developing countries …
Challenging the existing mechanisms for the governance of the world economy, the chapters in this book consider the current approaches of the IMF and World Bank, and the operations of financial markets and offer alternative proposals for the effective participation of developing countries in these for a. IN doing so, the volume ranges from discussions on reforming the IMF and its conditionality…
Critiquing the neoliberal economics formulated and imposed by the World Bank and IMF on developing countries generally, and Africa specifically, this book details the consequences of these policies. Demonstrated are the extraordinary economic and human damage these practices have wrought over the past decade, and how they have displaced the originally radical and pro-people orientation of the A…
This book contains annual report from The World Bank
In controversial speeches made around the world, Stiglitz has undone the conventional wisdom that dominated policy-making at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. For the first time, Stiglitz's nine most revealing speeches have been gathered together, covering such topics as the failure of shock therapy and transition economics, the limits of capital ma…
This book brings together existing and new research from several social science disciplines to examine the costs of persistent gender disparities to well-being and countries' development prospects. It explores how formal and informal institutions shape gender roles and relations and how household decisions and behaviors reproduce those roles, the relationship between economic development and ge…
Contents: 1. Introduction : Off on the wrong foot 2. Poverty remains a concern 3. Globalization does not automatically lead to convergence 4. Shifts in development paradigms 5. Decision-Making at the world bank,etc.
The contents of this book: Part 1 Including People in Development, June 1995-May 2000 Part 2 Peace and Poverty., June 2000-Agustus 2002
The papers included in this book cover different aspects of the governance of the Bretton Woods institutions. They explore different options for reform and show that enhancing the participation of developing and emerging market countries in resolving the major monetary and financial problems confronting the world economy, would improve global economic performance and contribute to the eliminati…