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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778695803321

Autore

Head John W (John Warren), <1953->

Titolo

Losing the global development war [[electronic resource] ] : a contemporary critique of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO / / John W. Head

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2008

ISBN

1-282-39759-1

9786612397592

90-474-4036-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Nijhoff eBook titles 2008

Disciplina

332.1/53

Soggetti

Development banks - Evaluation

Economic assistance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / J.W. Head -- Chapter One. The Fourth World War / J.W. Head -- Chapter Two. A Cacophony Of Criticisms—Attacking The Global Economic Organizations / J.W. Head -- Chapter Three. What Are The Global Economic Organizations? / J.W. Head -- Chapter Four. Battles Over The Geos’ Policies And Operations / J.W. Head -- Chapter Five. Battles Over The Geos’ Character, Control, And Reach / J.W. Head -- Chapter Six. The Current Front In The Global Development War— How (And Whether) To Reform The Geos? / J.W. Head -- About The Author / J.W. Head -- Selected Bibliography / J.W. Head -- Index / J.W. Head.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a new perspective in examining the key global economic organizations - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank (and its regional counterparts), and the World Trade Organization. Aimed at ordinary informed readers, the text draws upon the author's many years of familiarity with these organizations to evaluate them from a legal and policy perspective, touching on issues of \'mission creep,\' \'democracy deficit,\' and more. The book depicts such issues as the central struggles in a \'Global Development War\' that is now being lost because of certain ideological and institutional failings that



currently afflict the global institutions. That war can be won, the author asserts, only by adopting an ideology of liberal, intelligent, participatory, multilateral, and sustainable human development.