The World Bank - Toussaint, Eric

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Résumé :

Foreword
Terminology: South/North - Developing/Developed. Just What Are We Talking About?
Chapter 1 - The Origins of the Bretton Woods Institutions
Chapter 2 - The First Years of the World Bank (1946-1962)
Chapter 3 - Difficult Beginnings Between the Un and the World Bank
Chapter 4 -The Post-world War II Context - the Marshall Plan and the London Agreement on
Germany's Debt
Chapter 5 - A Bank Under Influence
Chapter 6 -World Bank and IMF Support for Dictatorships
Chapter 7 - The World Bank and the Philippines (1946-1990)
Chapter 8 - The World Bank's Support for the Dictatorship in Turkey
Chapter 9 - The Bank in Indonesia: a Textbook Case of Intervention
Chapter 10 - The World Bank's Theoretical Falsehoods Regarding Development
Chapter 11 - South Korea: the miracle Unmasked
Chapter 12 - The Debt Trap
Chapter 13 - The World Bank Saw the Debt Crisis Looming
Chapter 14 - The Mexican Debt Crisis and the World Bank
Chapter 15 - The World Bank and the IMF: the Creditors' Enforcers
Chapter 16 - Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-1995)
Chapter 17 - Rwanda: the Genocide's Financiers
Chapter 18 - James Wolfensohn Switches on the Charm (1995-2005)
Chapter 19 - Debates in Washington at the Start of the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 20 - Structural Adjustment and the Washington Consensus Were Not Abandoned in 2000
Chapter 21 - Climate and the Environmental Crisis: Sorcerer's Apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
Chapter 22 - Paul Wolfowitz (2005-2007): an Architect of the Invasion of Iraq at the Head of the World Bank
Chapter 23 - Ecuador: Progress and the Limits of Resistance to the Policies of the World Bank, the IMF and Other Creditors
Chapter 24 - The US President's Men Keep Control of the World Bank
Chapter 25 - The IMF and the World Bank in the Time of Coronavirus: the Failed Campaign for a New Image
Chapter 26 - The World Bank Did Not Foresee the Arab Spring Popular Uprisings and Still Promotes the Very Same Policies That Triggered Them
Chapter 27 - The Gender Equity Farce: a Feminist Reading of World Bank Policies
Chapter 28 - The World Bank and Human Rights
Chapter 29 - Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity
Chapter 30 - The Case for Abolishing and Replacing the IMF and the World Bank
Annexes
Annex 1: The World Bank: an ABC
Annex 2: The International Monetary Fund (IMF): an ABC Glossary
Bibliography of Works Cited
Works by Eric Toussaint Published in English
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