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The World Bank : a critical analysis / Cheryl Payer.

By:

Payer, Cheryl, 1940- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Monthly Review Press, c1982.Description: 414 pages ; tables, 21 cmISBN:

0853456011
085345602X (pbk.)

Subject(s):

World Bank

DDC classification:

332.1/532 19

LOC classification:

HG 3881 .P37 1982

Online resources:

Contents:

1. The institution and its power -- 2. Malignant growth: a preliminary explanation -- 3. Project lending: some general considerations -- 4. Infrastucture: the traditional sectors -- 5. Industry -- 6. Mining -- 7. Oil and gas -- 8. Agriculture and rural development -- 9. Water resources -- 10. Forestry and tree farming -- 11. Urban "shelter" projects -- 12. Inside the Bank -- 13. Conclusion: is there a better way?

Summary: "The current policies of the Reagan administration, both domestically and internationally, make this study of the real purposes and functions of the World Bank a timely resource. As Cheryl Payer states in a concluding chapter, 'Capitalist development of the Third World has been ideologically justified by the notion that it should bring a higher development of the productive forces, and ... lead to a better life for all, including the poorest.' This book exposes that claim to be yet another fruadulent 'trickle-down' theory." (from blurb on dust jacket)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	HG 3881 .P37 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML19090011

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377 - 408) and index.

"The current policies of the Reagan administration, both domestically and internationally, make this study of the real purposes and functions of the World Bank a timely resource. As Cheryl Payer states in a concluding chapter, 'Capitalist development of the Third World has been ideologically justified by the notion that it should bring a higher development of the productive forces, and ... lead to a better life for all, including the poorest.' This book exposes that claim to be yet another fruadulent 'trickle-down' theory." (from blurb on dust jacket)

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