Content Tagged: Environment Department World Bank

Books

• Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development

  Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development

  A deeply researched and widely acclaimed account of the World Bank and its destructive impact on the environment and social equity, as well as a questioning of the history, underly...

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Articles

• The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  This was the lead article in the "Special Issue: Environmental Law and Policy in Developing Countries" of the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Ecology Law...

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• Greenspeak

  Greenspeak

  The World Bank is doing its best to present itself as a born-again friend of the earth. Bruce Rich separates fact from fancy.

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• The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.

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• access to information
• access to information
• accountability
• accountability
• Acre (Brazil)
• Acre (Brazil)
• Adam Smith
• Adam Smith
• adjustment loans (see also: structural adjustment)
• adjustment loans (see also: structural adjustment)
• African Development Bank
• African Development Bank
• African Development Foundation (ADF)
• African Development Foundation (ADF)
• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• Agenda 21
• Agenda 21
• agricultural extension
• agricultural extension
• agricultural settlement
• agricultural settlement
• agriculture
• agriculture
• agro-ecological zoning
• agro-ecological zoning
• Allegretti Mary
• Allegretti Mary
• Alto Turi Settlement project
• Alto Turi Settlement project
• Amazon forest
• Amazon forest
• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
• Argentina
• Argentina
• Articles of Agreement (MDBs)
• Articles of Agreement (MDBs)
• Asher Robert E.
• Asher Robert E.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
• Attali Jacques
• Attali Jacques
• Bacon Sir Francis
• Bacon Sir Francis
• Baker plan (debt crisis)
• Baker plan (debt crisis)
• Bangkok
• Bangkok
• Banking on the Biosphere
• Banking on the Biosphere
• Barber Conable
• Barber Conable
• biological deficit financing
• biological deficit financing
• biological reserves
• biological reserves
• Board of Governors (World Bank)
• Board of Governors (World Bank)
• Borneo
• Borneo
• Botswana
• Botswana
• Brady plan (debt crisis)
• Brady plan (debt crisis)
• Brasilia
• Brasilia
• Brazil
• Brazil
• Brazil nuts
• Brazil nuts
• Bretton Woods
• Bretton Woods
• Brundtland Commission
• Brundtland Commission
• Brundtland report
• Brundtland report
• cacao
• cacao
• Cameroon
• Cameroon
• capital-intensive projects
• capital-intensive projects
• Carajas Iron Ore Project
• Carajas Iron Ore Project
• Catholic Church
• Catholic Church
• cattle projects
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• cattle ranching projects
• Ceaucescu Nicolae
• Ceaucescu Nicolae
• Chico Mendes
• Chico Mendes
• Chihuahua
• Chihuahua
• Chile
• Chile
• China
• China
• chinampas (Mexico)
• chinampas (Mexico)
• Chipko movement
• Chipko movement
• civil society
• civil society
• Clausen A.W. "Tom"
• Clausen A.W. "Tom"
• Claxton Nicholas
• Claxton Nicholas
• Climate Alliance of European Cities
• Climate Alliance of European Cities
• CO2 emissions
• CO2 emissions
• coal power plants
• coal power plants
• coffee
• coffee
• Colombia
• Colombia
• Committee of International Development Institutions on the Environment (CIDIE)
• Committee of International Development Institutions on the Environment (CIDIE)
• Conable Barber
• Conable Barber
• conditionality (for loans)
• conditionality (for loans)
• Congo
• Congo
• Congressional hearings
• Congressional hearings
• Congressional oversight
• Congressional oversight
• conservation
• conservation
• contradictions World Bank
• contradictions World Bank
• cost-benefit analysis
• cost-benefit analysis
• Costa Rica
• Costa Rica
• cotton production
• cotton production
• Country Directors (World Bank)
• Country Directors (World Bank)
• Country Economic Memoranda (World Bank)
• Country Economic Memoranda (World Bank)
• Country Program Papers (World Bank)
• Country Program Papers (World Bank)
• Cowell Adrian
• Cowell Adrian
• croplands
• croplands
• culture of loan approval
• culture of loan approval
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Côte d'Ivoire
• dams (see also large dams)
• dams (see also large dams)
• DDT
• DDT
• debt
• debt
• debt crisis
• debt crisis
• debt forgiveness
• debt forgiveness
• debt relief
• debt relief
• deforestation
• deforestation
• Descartes
• Descartes
• desertification
• desertification
• Developent Committee World Bank-IMF
• Developent Committee World Bank-IMF
• developing nations
• developing nations
• development
• development
• discounted rates of return
• discounted rates of return
• displacement
• displacement
• Dostoyevsky
• Dostoyevsky
• Durango
• Durango
• ecological debt
• ecological debt
• economic growth
• economic growth
• economics
• economics
• Electrical Gernerating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)
• Electrical Gernerating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)
• Eletrobras
• Eletrobras
• enclosure
• enclosure
• end-use energy efficiency
• end-use energy efficiency
• energy
• energy
• energy alternatives
• energy alternatives
• energy conservation
• energy conservation
• energy efficiency
• energy efficiency
• energy finance
• energy finance
• energy policy
• energy policy
• Enlightenment
• Enlightenment
• environmental action plan
• environmental action plan
• Environmental Advisor (World Bank)
• Environmental Advisor (World Bank)
• environmental crisis
• environmental crisis
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Defense Fund
• environmental justice
• environmental justice
• environmental loans
• environmental loans
• environmental policies (World Bank)
• environmental policies (World Bank)
• environmental policy
• environmental policy
• Environmental Policy Institute
• Environmental Policy Institute
• environmental politics
• environmental politics
• environmental programs
• environmental programs
• environmental projects
• environmental projects
• environmental reforms
• environmental reforms
• environmental staff
• environmental staff
• environmental staff (World Bank)
• environmental staff (World Bank)
• environmental sustainabililty
• environmental sustainabililty
• environment and natural Resources
• environment and natural Resources
• Environment Department World Bank
• Environment Department World Bank
• erosion
• erosion
• Executive Branch (U.S.)
• Executive Branch (U.S.)
• Executive Directors (of MDBs)
• Executive Directors (of MDBs)
• Executive Order 12114 (President Carter)
• Executive Order 12114 (President Carter)
• export earnings
• export earnings
• externalities (economic)
• externalities (economic)
• extractive reserves
• extractive reserves
• Faust
• Faust
• fertilizer industry
• fertilizer industry
• fisheries
• fisheries
• Fishery Sector Policy (World Bank)
• Fishery Sector Policy (World Bank)
• forced resettlement
• forced resettlement
• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
• foreign assistance
• foreign assistance
• Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (U.S.)
• Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (U.S.)
• forest protection
• forest protection
• forestry
• forestry
• forestry lending
• forestry lending
• forests
• forests
• Founex Meeting (United Nations)
• Founex Meeting (United Nations)
• Founex Report
• Founex Report
• FUNAI National Indian Foundation (Brazil)
• FUNAI National Indian Foundation (Brazil)
• Germany
• Germany
• Gezira (Sudan)
• Gezira (Sudan)
• global civil society
• global civil society
• global environmental management
• global environmental management
• Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• global green fund (for World Bank)
• global green fund (for World Bank)
• Goethe
• Goethe
• Governors (of MDBs)
• Governors (of MDBs)
• grasslands
• grasslands
• grassroots
• grassroots
• green fund (for World Bank)
• green fund (for World Bank)
• greenhouse gas emission source
• greenhouse gas emission source
• Green Revolution
• Green Revolution
• greenspeak
• greenspeak
• groundnuts
• groundnuts
• growth
• growth
• Guinea
• Guinea
• Gujarat
• Gujarat
• Guyana
• Guyana
• hard loans (MDBs)
• hard loans (MDBs)
• Harsud (India)
• Harsud (India)
• Heidegger Martin
• Heidegger Martin
• herbicides
• herbicides
• Himalayas
• Himalayas
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• House Banking Committee Subcommittee on International Development Institutions
• House Banking Committee Subcommittee on International Development Institutions
• House Foreign Affairs Committee (U.S.)
• House Foreign Affairs Committee (U.S.)
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• human rights
• human rights
• hydroelectric projects
• hydroelectric projects
• India
• India
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• Indian reserves
• Indian reserves
• indigenous peoples
• indigenous peoples
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• infant mortality
• infant mortality
• influenza
• influenza
• institutional schizophrenia
• institutional schizophrenia
• instrumental reason
• instrumental reason
• integrated pest management (IPM)
• integrated pest management (IPM)
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Foundation IAF
• Inter-American Foundation IAF
• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• irrigation projects
• irrigation projects
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• James Scheuer
• James Scheuer
• Japan
• Japan
• Java
• Java
• Jose Lutzenberger
• Jose Lutzenberger
• jungle colonization
• jungle colonization
• Kasten Robert
• Kasten Robert
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Keynes John Maynard
• Keynes John Maynard
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• large dams
• large dams
• learning by doing
• learning by doing
• Legal Department World Bank
• Legal Department World Bank
• lindane
• lindane
• livestock ranching
• livestock ranching
• loan approval culture
• loan approval culture
• logging
• logging
• Lutzenberger Jose
• Lutzenberger Jose
• macro-irrationality
• macro-irrationality
• Madagascar
• Madagascar
• Maheswar dam (India)
• Maheswar dam (India)
• malaria
• malaria
• malathion
• malathion
• Malawi
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Malaysia
• Martin Heidegger
• Martin Heidegger
• Mason Edward S.
• Mason Edward S.
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• McNamara Robert
• McNamara Robert
• MDB Campaign
• MDB Campaign
• measles
• measles
• Mendes Chico
• Mendes Chico
• Mexico
• Mexico
• Mexico Forestry Development Project
• Mexico Forestry Development Project
• micro-rationality
• micro-rationality
• mining
• mining
• modernity
• modernity
• Montreal Protocol
• Montreal Protocol
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Commission
• Morse Commission
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Narmada dam
• Narmada dam
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• Narmada Sagar project
• Narmada Sagar project
• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
• national parks
• national parks
• national TFAP plans
• national TFAP plans
• National Thermal Power Corporation India (NTPC)
• National Thermal Power Corporation India (NTPC)
• National Wildlife Federation
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natonal Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) India
• Natonal Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) India
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• natural rubber
• natural rubber
• neoclassical economic theory
• neoclassical economic theory
• Nepal
• Nepal
• net negative transfers
• net negative transfers
• New Delhi
• New Delhi
• Newton Sir Isaac
• Newton Sir Isaac
• New York Declaration of Environmental Policies and Procedures
• New York Declaration of Environmental Policies and Procedures
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-project lending
• non-project lending
• Obey David
• Obey David
• Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs (World Bank)
• Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs (World Bank)
• Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
• Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• organochlorines
• organochlorines
• oustees
• oustees
• overgrazing
• overgrazing
• Oxfam
• Oxfam
• Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Pak Mun dam (Thailand)
• Pak Mun dam (Thailand)
• Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea
• participation
• participation
• Pat Auferheide
• Pat Auferheide
• Patrick Coady
• Patrick Coady
• Peru
• Peru
• pesticide resistance
• pesticide resistance
• pesticides
• pesticides
• pesticide treadmill
• pesticide treadmill
• Philippines
• Philippines
• Poland
• Poland
• Polonoroeste project
• Polonoroeste project
• postmodernity
• postmodernity
• poverty
• poverty
• poverty alleviation
• poverty alleviation
• power
• power
• pressure to lend
• pressure to lend
• Preston Lewis
• Preston Lewis
• Price David
• Price David
• Prince Charles
• Prince Charles
• Project for Ecological Recovery (Thailand)
• Project for Ecological Recovery (Thailand)
• Project Performance Audits (World Bank)
• Project Performance Audits (World Bank)
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• public participation
• public participation
• pulp mills
• pulp mills
• Rainforest Action Network
• Rainforest Action Network
• Rainforest Memorandum
• Rainforest Memorandum
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi
• reorganization (of World Bank)
• reorganization (of World Bank)
• research
• research
• resettlement
• resettlement
• resettlement plan
• resettlement plan
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement programs
• resettlement programs
• resettlement projects
• resettlement projects
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
• Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
• Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
• roadbuilding
• roadbuilding
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Romania
• Romania
• Rondônia
• Rondônia
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Rostow Walt W.
• Rostow Walt W.
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• rubber
• rubber
• rubber tappers
• rubber tappers
• rural development
• rural development
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Rwanda
• Rwanda
• Sahlins Marshall
• Sahlins Marshall
• Saint-Simon Henri
• Saint-Simon Henri
• Saint-Simonians
• Saint-Simonians
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• sector lending
• sector lending
• Sector Policy Papers (World Bank)
• Sector Policy Papers (World Bank)
• self-organizing politics
• self-organizing politics
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
• Sierra Club
• Sierra Club
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• soft loans (MDBs)
• soft loans (MDBs)
• soil conservation
• soil conservation
• South Africa
• South Africa
• steady-state economy
• steady-state economy
• Stern Ernest
• Stern Ernest
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Subernarekha project
• Subernarekha project
• Sudan
• Sudan
• Suharto
• Suharto
• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• Summers Lawrence
• Summers Lawrence
• Survival International
• Survival International
• sustainability
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• sustainable forest management
• sustainable forest management
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable logging
• sustainable logging
• Swaziland
• Swaziland
• Taft Robert A.
• Taft Robert A.
• Tanzania
• Tanzania
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• technocracy
• technocracy
• technology transfer
• technology transfer
• Thailand
• Thailand
• timber production
• timber production
• tobacco projects
• tobacco projects
• totally insane
• totally insane
• Training and Visit (T&V) agricultural extension programs
• Training and Visit (T&V) agricultural extension programs
• Trans-Amazonian highway (Brazil)
• Trans-Amazonian highway (Brazil)
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• transparency
• transparency
• transportation
• transportation
• Treasury Department U.S.
• Treasury Department U.S.
• tropical deforestation
• tropical deforestation
• tropical forest biome
• tropical forest biome
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• tropical moist forests
• tropical moist forests
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Governor (World Bank)
• U.S. Governor (World Bank)
• U.S. Treasury Department
• U.S. Treasury Department
• Udall Lori
• Udall Lori
• Uganda
• Uganda
• UNCED
• UNCED
• underdevelopment
• underdevelopment
• UNDP
• UNDP
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
• United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
• United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Natons
• United Natons
• UN System
• UN System
• Upper Krishna projects
• Upper Krishna projects
• Uruguay
• Uruguay
• Wade Robert
• Wade Robert
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans Willi
• Wapenhans Willi
• water pollution
• water pollution
• water projects
• water projects
• Weber Max
• Weber Max
• West Papua
• West Papua
• White Harry Dexter
• White Harry Dexter
• wood-curing (tobacco)
• wood-curing (tobacco)
• Working Group on Multilateral Assistance (U.S.)
• Working Group on Multilateral Assistance (U.S.)
• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Articles of Agreement
• World Bank Articles of Agreement
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank charter
• World Bank charter
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Health Organization
• World Health Organization
• World Rainforest Movement
• World Rainforest Movement
• World Resources Institute
• World Resources Institute
• World Wide Fund for Nature
• World Wide Fund for Nature
• World Wildlife Fund
• World Wildlife Fund
• WWF
• WWF
• Zaire
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zambia

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