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    Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development

    By Bruce Rich

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    The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was supposed to be a turning point for the World Bank. Environmental concerns would now play a major role in its lending—programs and projects would go beyond economic developmto "sustainable development.” More than two decades later, efforts to green the bank seem pallid.
    Bruce Rich argues that the Bank's currinstitutional problems are extensions of flaws that had been pressince its founding. His new book, Foreclosing the Future, tells the story of the Bank from the Rio Earth Summit to today. For readers who want the full history of the Bank's environmental record, Rich's acclaimed 1994 critique, Mortgaging the Earth, is an essential companion.

    Called a "detailed and thought-provoking look at an important subject” by The New York Times, Mortgaging the Earth analyzes the twenty year period leading up the Rio Summit. Rich offers not only an important history but critical insights about economic developmthat are ever-more relevant today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateSep 30, 2013
    ISBN9781610915151
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