Losing the Global Development War: A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO

Author:   John Head
Publisher:   Brill
ISBN:  

9789004161887


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   17 March 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Losing the Global Development War: A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO


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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.

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Author:   John Head
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9789004161887


ISBN 10:   9004161880
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   17 March 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword and Synopsis; Chapter One: The Fourth World War; Chapter Two: A Cacophony of Criticisms — Attacking the Global Economic Organizations; Chapter Three: What Are the Global Economic Organizations?; Chapter Four: Battles Over the GEOs’ Policies and Operations; Chapter Five: Battles Over the GEOs’ Character, Control, and Reach; Chapter Six: The Current Front in the Global Development War — How (and Whether) to Reform the GEOs?; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

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John W. Head, professor of international law at Kansas University, holds degrees from Oxford University and the University of Virginia. He has worked in several international financial institutions and has written widely on global business law, and international development law and institutions.

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