The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty
Title | The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Buira |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1843311968 |
An authoritative review of the position of the IMF and World Bank in their sixtieth year.
Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank
Title | Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Toussaint |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1583674985 |
Mainstream economists tell us that developing countries will replicate the economic achievements of the rich countries if they implement the correct “free-market”policies. But scholars and activists Toussaint and Millet demonstrate that this is patently false. Drawing on a wealth of detailed evidence, they explain how developed economies have systematically and deliberately exploited the less-developed economies by forcing them into unequal trade and political relationships. Integral to this arrangement are the international economic institutions ostensibly created to safeguard the stability of the global economy—the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank—and the imposition of massive foreign debt on poor countries. The authors explain in simple language, and ample use of graphics, the multiple contours of this exploitative system, its history, and how it continues to function in the present day. Ultimately, Toussaint and Millet advocate cancellation of all foreign debt for developing countries and provide arguments from a number of perspectives—legal, economic, moral. Presented in an accessible and easily-referenced question and answer format, Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank is an essential tool for the global justice movement.
Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank
Title | Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Buira |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2005-11-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0857288180 |
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 elimination of world poverty.
The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty
Title | The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Buira |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2005-05-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0857287281 |
'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 to share in the prosperity of recent decades.
50 Years is Enough
Title | 50 Years is Enough PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Danaher |
Publisher | South End Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780896084957 |
As the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) celebrate fifty years of economic dominion over the Third World, this reader brings the best progressive authors together to critique these two main proponents of neo-liberalism. 50 Years is Enough covers such topics as failed development projects, the feminization of poverty, the detruction of the environment, the internal workings of the World Bank and the IMF, and the struggle to build alternatives to neo-liberal policies.It also includes a guide to the many organizations involved in the struggle to reform the World Bank and the IMF.
Challenges to the World Bank and IMF
Title | Challenges to the World Bank and IMF PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Buira |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2003-06-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0857287540 |
Bringing together some of the foremost authorities in their fields, this book is the result of work carried out on behalf of the G24, the world's only research effort devoting to furthering the interests of developing countries and bringing their needs to global attention. The book gives a voice to the developing nations of the world through its powerful essays and its fresh perspective.
The Globalizers
Title | The Globalizers PDF eBook |
Author | Ngaire Woods |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2014-10-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0801456029 |
"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy."—from the Introduction The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship from the fields of economics, law, and politics. The Globalizers focuses on both the political context of IMF and World Bank actions and their impact on the countries in which they intervene. After describing the important debates between U.S. planners and the Allies in the 1944 foundation at Bretton Woods, she analyzes understandings of their missions over the last quarter century. She traces the impact of the Bank and the Fund in the recent economic history of Mexico, of post-Soviet Russia, and in the independent states of Africa. Woods concludes by proposing a range of reforms that would make the World Bank and the IMF more effective, equitable, and just.