Banking on the poor : : the World Bank and world poverty

The amount of money that the World Bank lends to developing countries every year -- which rose from less than $1 billion to over $12 billion during Robert McNamara's presidency -- makes it the world's preeminent international development institution. But the critical question addressed in...

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Main Author: Ayres, Robert L.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1983..
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Online Access:https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780262010702.pdf
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300 |a xiv, 282 p.;   |c 24 cm.. 
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520 0 |a The amount of money that the World Bank lends to developing countries every year -- which rose from less than $1 billion to over $12 billion during Robert McNamara's presidency -- makes it the world's preeminent international development institution. But the critical question addressed in this book is concerned with the purpose and the results of these loans: How effectively ahs the Bank stimulated growth and reduced poverty in the Third World? 
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610 2 7 |a Weltbank  
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