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This section has material on four chapters I authored in four different books, plus a preface and essay I authored for a book on Ashoka published in Bengali in Bangladesh in 2016.
Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the P...
This article appeared in late 2013, and the World Bank Group has made progress in adopting some of the article's recommendations, namely commitments to end financing of coal power...
Corrupt businesses, politicians, and cronies are stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from the globe’s poorest people. The World Bank and other multilateral development lending...
This article examines the record of the first several years of James Wolfensohn's tenure as president of the World Bank, based mainly on internal Bank evaluation reports. This piec...
This testimony examines the institutional issues concerning massive corruption in World Bank lending over the past thirteen years through 2004, as documented in internal World Bank...
My testimony concerned the Asian Development Bank, subsequently the discussion with Senator Lugar also dealt with the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, especiall...
Robert Kuttner's recent book, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism,“ warns that “corporate and financial elites have substantially captured the machinery of the state,” as wel...
A book review of William Easterly's The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006).
First of two essays summarizing my analysis of the World Bank's record in addressing climate change, including managing global carbon trading funds, in the web blog and discussion...
Over the last two decades the world’s institutions have largely failed to deal with the ecological crises of climate change, destruction of species, and pollution of fresh water an...
Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Bruce Rich paints a picture of a Bank still infl...
In the words of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the 2011 Davos World Economic Forum, the global economy has become a “global suicide pact.” How can we imagine alternatives? Are...
A recent review of the economic costs and benefits of 245 large dams by four Oxford professors....found “overwhelming evidence” that the real costs of large dam projects, are for t...
According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the internet has already become the dominant factor in the illegal global trade in protected species. No species is too obsc...
The allure of an market that pays developing countries and forest communities to preserve standing forests as offsets for not reducing emissions in the richer industrialized nation...
The Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is based on the premise that a ton of greenhouse gas reductions can be purchased more cheaply in a developing country than a r...
The World Bank has become the main financial administrator of “climate investment funds as well as for 12 different "carbon funds." A growing literature has documented the lack of...
When I first came to Washington in the 1980s I heard references to “leakage” from contacts in the World Bank and U.S. Treasury Department. I wondered how it could be that a well-fu...
The world’s largest new oil and gas project is taking place 120 miles offshore from Guyana. Exxonmobil (45 percent share) together with Hess (30 percent), and the Chinese company...
Last November the 27th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention agreed to establish a new “Loss and Damage” fund to compensate nations “particularly vulnerable” to the i...
With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India. What can ancient Indian thinkers Ashoka and Kautilya tell us about how to think about the dilemmas of globalization in...
"Foreclosing the Future," Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: I discuss the findings of my then recently published new book on the World Bank, "...
