CiNii 図書 - Faith and credit : the World Bank's secular empire

In its fifty years of existence, the World Bank has influenced more lives in the Third World than any other institution, yet it remains largely unknown, even enigmatic. Although it claims to be a purely economic institution, the Bank wields enormous political power and has succeeded in making its own view of development appear to be the norm. In this richly illuminating and lively overview, Susan George and Fabrizio Sabelli examine the Banks policies, its internal culture, and the interests it serves. They reveal a supranational, nondemocratic, and extremely powerful institution that functions much like the medieval church or a monolithic political party, relying on rigid doctrine, hierarchy, and a rejection of dissenting ideas to perpetuate its influence. Its faith in orthodox economics, the idea of perpetual growth, and the capacity of the market to solve development problems is incompatible with its professed goals of helping the poor and protecting the environment. Faced with these contradictions, the Bank is increasingly struggling to reconcile the roles of commercial lender, policymaker, and great humanitarian. This book is crucial reading for anyone interested in development and economy of the Third World, especially for international, political, and development economists.

* Introduction and Basics * In the Beginning * The Other Ancestor * Structural Salvation * False Prophesies * The Fundamentalist Freedom Fighter * L'Esprit de Corps * Governance: The Last Refuge? * The Environmental Battlefield * Intellectual Leadership and the H Street Heretics * Ruling the Realm * The Bank Perceived: Images and Self-Images * Conclusion: "The Thing"

巻冊次: ISBN 9780813326085

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The World Bank is an immensely powerful, though little-understood, institution. This study ranges from personal criticism of the central players to a more reflective discussion of the blind faith characteristic of development economics based on the idea of perpetual growth. The authors compare the ideologies of the free market with religious faith, giving the World Bank the role of a secular church setting out to convert the world's underdeveloped economies to the consumer capitalist way, and so to create an enormous secular empire. Susan George is the author of "Ill Fares the Land", "How the Other Half Dies" and "A Fate Worse than Debt", winner of the 1988 US World Hunger Media Award and French UNICEF Committee Prize 1989.

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