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In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on think...
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...
Environmental organizations and funders have too often promoted new fads driven by a culture of unrealistic expectations, leading to a cycle of rejection, reinvention, and repacka...
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).
Rich describes carbon markets as the “financial cargo cult that had driven much of the early enthusiasm for REDD+.” REDD national plans often tended to focus on the technical compl...
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...
The Catholic theologian Hans Küng observed that “a global market economy requires a global ethic.” Yet at the very moment when the need for just such an ethic is more urgent than e...
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...
A report of the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group concludes that efforts of the International Finance Corporation, to green operations of two Brazilian multinational agribus...
Civil society groups and the United Nations argue that access to water is a basic human right, and subjecting access to water for the poor to market forces is ethically objectionab...
The scope of the Indian RTI (Right to Information) law exceeds that of similar laws in most industrial countries, applying to states, municipalities and other local bodies, as well...
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...
