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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

  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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Articles

• 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.

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• The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.

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• access to information
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• adjustment loans (see also: structural adjustment)
• adjustment loans (see also: structural adjustment)
• African Development Foundation (ADF)
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• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
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• Agenda 21
• Agenda 21
• agricultural extension
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• Allegretti Mary
• Allegretti Mary
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• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
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• Argentina
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• Asher Robert E.
• Asher Robert E.
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
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• Attali Jacques
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• Bacon Sir Francis
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• Baker plan (debt crisis)
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• Congo
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• Cowell Adrian
• Cowell Adrian
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• Côte d'Ivoire
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• Dostoyevsky
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• economics
• Electrical Gernerating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)
• Electrical Gernerating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)
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• environmental action plan
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• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
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• FUNAI National Indian Foundation (Brazil)
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• Guinea
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• Guyana
• Harsud (India)
• Harsud (India)
• Heidegger Martin
• Heidegger Martin
• Himalayas
• Himalayas
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• human rights
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• India
• India
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• Indian reserves
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• indigenous peoples
• indigenous peoples
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• institutional schizophrenia
• institutional schizophrenia
• instrumental reason
• instrumental reason
• integrated pest management (IPM)
• integrated pest management (IPM)
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Foundation IAF
• Inter-American Foundation IAF
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
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• 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
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• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• irrigation projects
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• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
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• James Scheuer
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• Japan
• Japan
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• Java
• Kasten Robert
• Kasten Robert
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Keynes John Maynard
• Keynes John Maynard
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• large dams
• large dams
• learning by doing
• learning by doing
• Legal Department World Bank
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• livestock ranching
• livestock ranching
• loan approval culture
• loan approval culture
• logging
• logging
• Lutzenberger Jose
• Lutzenberger Jose
• Madagascar
• Madagascar
• Maheswar dam (India)
• Maheswar dam (India)
• malaria
• malaria
• Malaysia
• Malaysia
• Martin Heidegger
• Martin Heidegger
• Mason Edward S.
• Mason Edward S.
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
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• MDB Campaign
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• Mendes Chico
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• Mexico
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• modernity
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• Montreal Protocol
• Montreal Protocol
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Commission
• Morse Commission
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
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• Narmada dam
• Narmada dam
• Narmada river
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• Narmada Sagar project
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• national TFAP plans
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• National Thermal Power Corporation India (NTPC)
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• National Wildlife Federation
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natonal Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) India
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• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• natural rubber
• natural rubber
• Nepal
• Nepal
• net negative transfers
• net negative transfers
• New Delhi
• New Delhi
• Newton Sir Isaac
• Newton Sir Isaac
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-project lending
• non-project lending
• Obey David
• Obey David
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
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• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• oustees
• oustees
• Oxfam
• Oxfam
• Pak Mun dam (Thailand)
• Pak Mun dam (Thailand)
• Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea
• participation
• participation
• Pat Auferheide
• Pat Auferheide
• Patrick Coady
• Patrick Coady
• Peru
• Peru
• Philippines
• Philippines
• Poland
• Poland
• Polonoroeste project
• Polonoroeste project
• postmodernity
• postmodernity
• poverty
• poverty
• poverty alleviation
• poverty alleviation
• pressure to lend
• pressure to lend
• Preston Lewis
• Preston Lewis
• Price David
• Price David
• Prince Charles
• Prince Charles
• Project for Ecological Recovery (Thailand)
• Project for Ecological Recovery (Thailand)
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• public participation
• public participation
• pulp mills
• pulp mills
• Rainforest Action Network
• Rainforest Action Network
• Rainforest Memorandum
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• Rajiv Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi
• reorganization (of World Bank)
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• research
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• resettlement
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• resettlement plan
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• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement programs
• resettlement programs
• resettlement projects
• resettlement projects
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Romania
• Romania
• Rondônia
• Rondônia
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Rostow Walt W.
• Rostow Walt W.
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• rubber
• rubber
• rubber tappers
• rubber tappers
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Rwanda
• Rwanda
• Sahlins Marshall
• Sahlins Marshall
• Saint-Simon Henri
• Saint-Simon Henri
• Saint-Simonians
• Saint-Simonians
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• sector lending
• sector lending
• self-organizing politics
• self-organizing politics
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• Sierra Club
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• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• South Africa
• South Africa
• steady-state economy
• steady-state economy
• Stern Ernest
• Stern Ernest
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Subernarekha project
• Subernarekha project
• Suharto
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• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• Summers Lawrence
• Summers Lawrence
• Survival International
• Survival International
• sustainability
• sustainability
• sustainable development
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• sustainable forest management
• sustainable forest management
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable logging
• sustainable logging
• Taft Robert A.
• Taft Robert A.
• Tanzania
• Tanzania
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• technocracy
• technocracy
• Thailand
• Thailand
• timber production
• timber production
• totally insane
• totally insane
• Training and Visit (T&V) agricultural extension programs
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• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• transparency
• transparency
• Treasury Department U.S.
• Treasury Department U.S.
• tropical deforestation
• tropical deforestation
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• tropical moist forests
• tropical moist forests
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Governor (World Bank)
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• U.S. Treasury Department
• U.S. Treasury Department
• Udall Lori
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• Uganda
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• UNDP
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• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
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• United Natons
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• Upper Krishna projects
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• Uruguay
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• Wade Robert
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• Wapenhans report
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• Wapenhans Willi
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• Weber Max
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• West Papua
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• White Harry Dexter
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• World Bank
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• World Rainforest Movement
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