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...

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...
Greenspeak

Greenspeak

The World Bank is doing its best to present itself as a born-again friend of the earth. Bruce Rich separates fact from fancy.
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...
A Test Case for Export Finance

A Test Case for Export Finance

The $1.64 billion Ilisu Dam in Turkey will forcibly displace upwards of 65,000 ethnic Kurds. The export credit agencies (ECAs) of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland have approved ne...