Content Tagged: race to the bottom

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

• Exporting Destruction

  Exporting Destruction

  This is the story of how the Export Credit Agencies of major exporting coutries operated under a cloak of secrecy with a mandate to promote domestic businesses abroad at almost an...

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• China's Blank Checks for Unsustainable Development

  China's Blank Checks for Unsustainable Development

  China is becoming the biggest international public financial player in poorer countries, dwarfing the largest development agencies such as the World Bank. Unfortunately, the econom...

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• A Flight From Sustainability

  A Flight From Sustainability

  World Bank efforts to weaken environmental and social safeguard policies are provoking international concern....The Bank will only remain relevant by refocusing on the environmenta...

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• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• Albert Schweitzer
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• Amartya Sen
• Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (World Bank)
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• Annual Review of Portfolio Performance (World Bank)
• Aristotle
• Aristotle
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• Arnold Toynbee
• Arnold Toynbee
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• Arun III dam
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• Australia Export Finance and Investment Corporation (EFIC)
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• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
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• Java
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• Jay Hair
• Jay Hair
• Jean-Michel Severino
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• Jeffrey Winters
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• Jim Yong Kim
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• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• Kamchatka
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• Kandahar
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• Karcher Martin
• Karcher Martin
• Kautilya
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• Kyrgyzstan
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• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
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• Manuel Castells
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• Mozambique
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• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Narmada dam
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• networks (World Bank)
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• new mercantilism
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• Nigeria
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• Nobel Peace Prize
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• non-governmental organizations NGOs
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• non-project lending
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• nonviolence
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• nuclear power
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• 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 Trade Directorate
• OECD Trade Directorate
• 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
• political risk
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• political risk insurance
• political risk insurance
• poverty assessments
• poverty assessments
• 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
• project finance
• project finance
• project quality
• project quality
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• protected species
• protected species
• protected species act
• protected species act
• prudence
• prudence
• public debate
• public debate
• 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
• resettlement
• resettlement
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• 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 assessment
• risk assessment
• risk management
• risk management
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Romania
• Romania
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• SACE (Italy)
• SACE (Italy)
• Safeguard Policies
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• Safeguard Policies (dilution of)
• Safeguard Policies (dilution of)
• 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)
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• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
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• Smith Adam
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• social impacts
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• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
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• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
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• Sub-Saharan Africa
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• Sudan
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• Suharto
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• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• sustainability
• sustainability
• Task Managers (World Bank)
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• technical assistance projects
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• 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. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress Ominibus Appropriations Act 2015
• U.S. Congress Ominibus Appropriations Act 2015
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
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• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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• Uzbekistan
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• Vaclav Havel
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• Venezuela
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• Wapenhans report
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• Weber Max
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• Wen Jiabao
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• West Papua
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