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Mortgaging The Earth
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Author : Bruce Rich
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 1994
Mortgaging The Earth written by Bruce Rich and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Business & Economics categories.
Comprehensive and devastating critique of the effects of World Bank policies on the societies and environments of the countries it operates in.
Mortgaging The Earth
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Author : Bruce Rich
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 1994
Mortgaging The Earth written by Bruce Rich and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Economic assistance categories.
"The World Bank is the single biggest source of finance for international development, and its policies have a critical impact on the future of more than 110 borrowing countries. In this dramatic and lively new critique, Bruce Rich, internationally known expert on the environment and the World Bank, analyzes how the Bank has become a seemingly unstoppable and often destructive environmental and political force." "The author chronicles the life-and-death impact of Bank-funded projects around the world: huge dams that have forced the resettlement of millions of the poorest people on earth, road building and jungle colonization schemes in Brazil, Indonesia, and Africa that have left vast deforestation and social conflict in their wake, and much more. Rich also recounts the bold grassroots campaigns of nongovernmental groups seeking alternatives to Bank-style development." "Confidential internal Bank documents expose chronic misrepresentations by Bank management to its donor nations and to the public. Rich reveals how senior officials continue to push money into projects with disastrous ecological and human rights consequences, despite early and persistent protests of Bank staff. He shows how repeatedly and without political accountability the Bank has increased its support for regimes that torture and murder their subjects, from Ceaucescu's Romania to Suharto's Indonesia." "Mortgaging the Earth explains the so-called pressure to lend that emerges as a leitmotif in the Bank's fifty-year history and shows how this institutional dynamic has taken on a damaging life of its own. Rich traces the history of the Bank, from its inception at Bretton Woods, where it was conceived as a way to funnel reconstruction loans for war-torn Europe, through the surreally top-down tenure of Robert McNamara to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. At Rio, governments poured billions of dollars more into the Bank to save our global environment - while the Bank financed new ecological disasters." "The World Bank, Rich demonstrates in a provocative history of development from Descartes to Max Weber to Chico Mendes, is a crucible of the goals of the modern age, goals that in the very moment of their worldwide triumph have become problematic. He shows how the Bank's dilemmas mirror our global civilization's crisis of values and gives expert prescription for reform." "Mortgaging the Earth makes disturbingly clear why every American should be concerned about the World Bank, as a critical arena where the global politics of technology, development, and the environment are played out on a small planet, one where the stakes are increasingly for keeps."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Mortgaging The Earth
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Author : Bruce Rich
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Mortgaging The Earth written by Bruce Rich and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with Political Science categories.
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 development to “sustainable development.” More than two decades later, efforts to green the bank seem pallid. Bruce Rich argues that the Bank’s current institutional problems are extensions of flaws that had been present since 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 development that are ever-more relevant today.
Mortgaging The Earth
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Author : Bruce Rich
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Mortgaging The Earth written by Bruce Rich and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Business & Economics categories.
This critique of World Bank operations examines the effects of this organization on the societies in which it operates. Highly critical of the Bank's practices in its 50 years of operation, the author demonstrates how the Bank has become virtually unaccountable and a law unto itself. He describes how the Bank has supported oppressive regimes and loaned money to support large projects which have displaced local populations. He argues further that the Bank's current policies of structural adjustment are arresting the development of Third World countries.
Mortgaging The Earth
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Author : Bruce Rich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Mortgaging The Earth written by Bruce Rich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Economic assistance categories.
Own Your Piece Of The Earth
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Author : Irene Strong
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-15
Own Your Piece Of The Earth written by Irene Strong and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with categories.
There are few Canadians who don't dream of owning a home - and who don't dream of owning a home mortgage-free the moment they do. Irene Strong leaped at the chance to buy her first home a few months after graduating from university, even selling her car to be able to make payments. With her husband, she went on to buy three more condos and a house in the hottest real estate market in Canada, using nothing but average incomes and know-how. Along the way, she became a mortgage broker, inspired to help her clients access similar opportunities. Irene believes that mortgages are the single most powerful wealth-building tool available to Canadians, and Own Your Piece of the Earth is her way of putting that tool in your hands. She provides the insider perspective you need to qualify for a mortgage, find the best products for your situation to save interest over the long term - and most importantly, build your wealth.
Ethics For A Small Planet
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Author : Daniel C. Maguire
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1998-01-22
Ethics For A Small Planet written by Daniel C. Maguire and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-22 with Religion categories.
This book offers an original assessment of the crisis caused by the combined impact of overpopulation, overconsumption, and economic and political injustice. It summons religious scholarship into urgent dialogue with the other disciplines and with the world's policymakers. The authors seek a new understanding of religion and its power since, for good or for ill, the world's religions will be players in the crises relating to population and the threat of ecocide. Two-thirds of the world's people affiliate with these religions and the other third cannot escape the influence of these symbol-filled cultural powerhouses. Ethics for a Small Planet offers complementary studies by two major social ethicists on these issues. Daniel C. Maguire indicts our male-dominated religions for the problems they have caused for our ecology and reproductive ethics. He raises the controversial questions of whether the very concept of God is a problem and whether Christianity's notions of afterlife and a divinized male have done more harm than good. Larry L. Rasmussen also recognizes that the problems of our planet are largely male-made and rich-dominated. He writes that Europeans packaged a form of earth-unfriendly capitalism and shipped it all over the world with missionary zeal. He ably scans the long history that led to the current manic rush to push the earth beyond its limits, and goes on to suggest moral norms and policy guidelines for sustainable communities and genuinely shared power. Both authors argue that there are positive and renewable moral energies in the world's religions and that unless religion, understood as a response to the sanctity of life, animates our ethical debates, the prospects for the world are grim. The sense of the sacred is presented here as the nucleus of the good and the only force that can bring about the lifestyle changes and power reallocations that are necessary to prevent terracide.
Guaranteed To Fail
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Author : Viral V. Acharya
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-14
Guaranteed To Fail written by Viral V. Acharya and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Why America's public-private mortgage giants threaten the world economy—and what to do about it The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history. The bailout has already cost American taxpayers close to $150 billion, and substantially more will be needed. The U.S. economy--and by extension, the global financial system--has a lot riding on Fannie and Freddie. They cannot fail, yet that is precisely what these mortgage giants are guaranteed to do. How can we limit the damage to our economy, and avoid making the same mistakes in the future? Guaranteed to Fail explains how poorly designed government guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the debacle of mortgage finance in the United States, weighs different reform proposals, and provides sensible, practical recommendations. Despite repeated calls for tougher action, Washington has expanded the scope of its guarantees to Fannie and Freddie, fueling more and more housing and mortgages all across the economy--and putting all of us at risk. This book unravels the dizzyingly immense, highly interconnected businesses of Fannie and Freddie. It proposes a unique model of reform that emphasizes public-private partnership, one that can serve as a blueprint for better organizing and managing government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In doing so, Guaranteed to Fail strikes a cautionary note about excessive government intervention in markets.
Land And The Mortgage
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Author : Daivi Rodima-Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Land And The Mortgage written by Daivi Rodima-Taylor and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with Social Science categories.
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods. Combining findings from archives, printed records, and live ethnography, the book describes the changing and problematic assumptions surrounding mortgage. It shows how mortgages affect people on the ground, where local forms of mutuality mix with larger bureaucracies. The outcomes of mortgage in Africa, Europe, Asia, and America challenge economic development orthodoxies, calling for a human-centered exploration of this age-old institution.
Free Market Environmentalism
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Author : T. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2001-02-02
Free Market Environmentalism written by T. Anderson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-02 with Science categories.
The original edition of this seminal book, published in 1991, introduced the concept of using markets and property rights to protect and improve environmental quality. Since publication, the ideas in this book have been adopted not only by conservative circles but by a wide range of environmental groups. To mention a few examples, Defenders of Wildlife applies the tenets of free market environmentalism to its wolf compensation program; World Wildlife Federation has successfully launched the CAMPFIRE program in southern Africa to reward native villagers who conserve elephants; and the Oregon Water Trust uses water markets to purchase or lease water for salmon and steelhead habitats. This revised edition updates the successful applications of free market environmentalism and adds two new chapters.