BRUCE RICH | AUTHOR | ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER - Tags | expert on public international finance and the environment

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...
Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

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...

Articles

As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

This article appeared in late 2013, and the World Bank Group has made progress in adopting some of the article's recommendations, namely commitments to end financing of coal power...
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...
Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

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...
Testimony, Prepared Statement, and Discussion, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part III

Testimony, Prepared Statement, and Discussion, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part III

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...
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...
Megadams and Economic Folly

Megadams and Economic Folly

A recent review of the economic costs and benefits of 245 large dams by four Oxford professors....found “overwhelming evidence” that the real costs of large dam projects, are for t...

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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

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Articles

As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

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

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

Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

Testimony, Prepared Statement, and Discussion, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part III

Testimony, Prepared Statement, and Discussion, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part III

A Flight From Sustainability

A Flight From Sustainability

Megadams and Economic Folly

Megadams and Economic Folly

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