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Books

• Anthologies

  Anthologies

  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.

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Articles

• 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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• ABN Ambro
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• Aceh
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• Adam Smith
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• Afghanistan
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• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• Albert Schweitzer
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• Amartya Sen
• Amartya Sen
• Annual Performance Review (IFC)
• Annual Performance Review (IFC)
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• Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (World Bank)
• Annual Review of Portfolio Performance (World Bank)
• Annual Review of Portfolio Performance (World Bank)
• Argentina
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• Aristotle
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• arms exports
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• Arnold Toynbee
• Arnold Toynbee
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arun III dam
• Arun III dam
• Australia Export Finance and Investment Corporation (EFIC)
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• Azerbaijan
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• Balfour Beatty
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• Bangladesh
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• beer breweries (MIGA support for)
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• Carlos Slim (World Bank support for)
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• Castells Manuel
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• Cernovada nuclear reactor (Romania)
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• conditionality (for loans)
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• consultation
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• corporate welfare
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• corruption
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• Country Assistance Strategies (World Bank)
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• Devesh Kapur
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• disconnect (in World Bank)
• Dominican Republic
• Dominican Republic
• economic globalization
• economic globalization
• Ecuador
• Ecuador
• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
• Elf Aquitaine
• Elf Aquitaine
• Enron Cuiba Brazil-Bolivia pipeline
• Enron Cuiba Brazil-Bolivia pipeline
• Enron Dabhol gas-fired power plant (India)
• Enron Dabhol gas-fired power plant (India)
• environmental action plan
• environmental action plan
• environmental assessments EAs
• environmental assessments EAs
• Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
• Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
• environmental justice
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• environmentally sustainable poverty alleviation
• environmentally sustainable poverty alleviation
• environmental sector
• environmental sector
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• EURODAD
• EURODAD
• Ex-Im Bank
• Ex-Im Bank
• export-led growth
• export-led growth
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• ExxonMobil
• ExxonMobil
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Task Force (World Bank)
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Task Force (World Bank)
• Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• fiscal space
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• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign direct investment
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• forestry
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• Freeport Mcmoran
• Freeport Mcmoran
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• German Hermes Guarantee
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• Heinrich Zimmer
• Heinrich Zimmer
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• Hermes Guarantee
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• idealism
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• India
• India
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• institutional amnesia
• institutional amnesia
• institutional optimism
• institutional optimism
• 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
• International Netherlands Group (ING)
• International Netherlands Group (ING)
• Iran
• Iran
• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• Jakarta
• Jakarta
• Jakarta Declaration
• Jakarta Declaration
• James Wolfensohn
• James Wolfensohn
• Jane Loos
• Jane Loos
• Jannik Linkbaek
• Jannik Linkbaek
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
• Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry Investment Insurance (MITI)
• Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry Investment Insurance (MITI)
• Java
• Java
• Jay Hair
• Jay Hair
• Jean-Michel Severino
• Jean-Michel Severino
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jeffrey Winters
• job creation
• job creation
• justice
• justice
• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• Kamchatka
• Kamchatka
• Kandahar
• Kandahar
• Karcher Martin
• Karcher Martin
• Kautilya
• Kautilya
• Kyrgyzstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Lloyds Bank of London
• Lloyds Bank of London
• logging
• logging
• London Dumping Convention
• London Dumping Convention
• Loos memorandum
• Loos memorandum
• luxury hotels (IFC financing of)
• luxury hotels (IFC financing of)
• Maastricht Treaty
• Maastricht Treaty
• Machiavelli
• Machiavelli
• Maheswar dam (India)
• Maheswar dam (India)
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming participation
• mainstreaming participation
• Manuel Castells
• Manuel Castells
• Martin Karcher
• Martin Karcher
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• Mexico
• Mexico
• mining
• mining
• Miraflores Lima Peru
• Miraflores Lima Peru
• monitoring
• monitoring
• Morse Commission
• Morse Commission
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Narmada dam
• Narmada dam
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• networks (World Bank)
• networks (World Bank)
• new mercantilism
• new mercantilism
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-project lending
• non-project lending
• nonviolence
• nonviolence
• nuclear power
• nuclear power
• OECD anti-bribery convention
• OECD anti-bribery convention
• OECD Common Approaches on Environment and Export Credits
• OECD Common Approaches on Environment and Export Credits
• OECD DAC Guidelines on Aid and the Environment
• OECD DAC Guidelines on Aid and the Environment
• OECD DAC Guidelines Strategies for Sustainable Development
• OECD DAC Guidelines Strategies for Sustainable Development
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• OECD Export Credit Group
• OECD Export Credit Group
• OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees
• OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees
• OeKB (Austria)
• OeKB (Austria)
• official export credit agencies
• official export credit agencies
• Ok Tedi mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Ok Tedi mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Omai Gold Mine (Guyana)
• Omai Gold Mine (Guyana)
• Operational Directives (World Bank)
• Operational Directives (World Bank)
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation OPIC (U.S.)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation OPIC (U.S.)
• Paiton II power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton II power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton I power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton I power plant (Indonesia)
• Pangue dam (Chile)
• Pangue dam (Chile)
• Panguna copper mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Panguna copper mine (Papua New Guinea)
• paper and pulp plants
• paper and pulp plants
• Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea
• Petronas
• Petronas
• political risk
• political risk
• political risk insurance
• political risk insurance
• poverty alleviation
• poverty alleviation
• poverty assessments
• poverty assessments
• Poverty Reduction Handbook (World Bank)
• Poverty Reduction Handbook (World Bank)
• power generating industry
• power generating industry
• pressure to lend
• pressure to lend
• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
• private sector capital flows
• private sector capital flows
• private sector investment
• private sector investment
• Program of Targeted Interventions (World Bank)
• Program of Targeted Interventions (World Bank)
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• protected species
• protected species
• protected species act
• protected species act
• prudence
• prudence
• public participation
• public participation
• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Rabindranath Tagore
• race to the bottom
• race to the bottom
• realism
• realism
• realpolitik
• realpolitik
• religious fundamentalism
• religious fundamentalism
• religious tolerance
• religious tolerance
• reputational risk
• reputational risk
• responsibility for the world
• responsibility for the world
• restraint
• restraint
• reverence for life
• reverence for life
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Tinto Zinc
• Rio Tinto Zinc
• risk management
• risk management
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Romania
• Romania
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Russia
• Russia
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• SACE (Italy)
• SACE (Italy)
• Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• self-control
• self-control
• self-organizing politics
• self-organizing politics
• Severino Jean Michel
• Severino Jean Michel
• short-term trade finance
• short-term trade finance
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• social sector
• social sector
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Suharto
• Suharto
• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• sustainability
• sustainability
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• technical assistance projects
• technical assistance projects
• Thailand
• Thailand
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• tolerance
• tolerance
• top-down
• top-down
• Toynbee Arnold
• Toynbee Arnold
• trade finance
• trade finance
• transcendence
• transcendence
• transparency
• transparency
• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• Turkey
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Turkmenistan
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• UNDP
• UNDP
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations
• United Nations
• United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
• United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• Uruguay
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vaclav Havel
• Vaclav Havel
• Wall Street Journal
• Wall Street Journal
• Walmart
• Walmart
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans Willi
• Wapenhans Willi
• Weber Max
• Weber Max
• Wen Jiabao
• Wen Jiabao
• West Papua
• West Papua
• Wolfensohn James
• Wolfensohn James
• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• Zambia
• Zambia

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