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• 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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• 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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• How the World Bank Fails The Poor

  How the World Bank Fails The Poor

  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...

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• Irian Jaya
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• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
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• Jakarta
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• Narmada Bachao Andolan
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• national parks
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