John Perkins’ controversial and bestselling exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, revealed for the first time the secret world of economic hit men (EHMs). But Perkins’ Confessions contained o...
Written by a premier group of 21 thinkers from around the world, the second edition of Alternatives to Economic Globalization lays out democratic, ecologically sound, socially just alternatives to ...
In many parts of the world, knowledge is being put to work to accelerate and deepen the development process, promoting innovation and helping to generate wealth and jobs. This book discusses advanc...
As president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn managed operations in almost 150 countries and was responsible for tens of billions of dollars in aid to the world’s poorest nations. During his ten...
Written by 27 World Bank experts, this book draws on the Bank's unique global capabilities and experience to promote an understanding of key global issues that cannot be solved by any one nation al...
Named one of the best books of the year by The Sunday Times of London, and already a bestseller in England, Noreena Hertz's The Silent Takeover explains how corporations in the age of globalization...
As a knowledge bank, the World Bank produces a wide and varied range of information tools, from project documents, country assistance strategies, and development reports to monographs, electronic d...
This edition of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics presents selected papers from the ABCDE Meetings, held May 29-30, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. This volume presents papers on Inf...
this is a book about the capitalism in the age of the crisis!, the last crisis is a challenge for the capitalistic system as whole, i think that the capitalism will survive, doesn't it?
we still h...
There is a deep chasm between the promises of the new global capitalism and the reality of social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction it is leaving in its wake. In this im...
A NEW WORLD ORDER
This book begins by identifying a global problematique, a coincidence of four sustained factors: war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistence of poverty; the denial of hu...
Review of International Political Economy 7:2 Summer 2000: 353–368
Transforming our common future: the local dimensions of global reform
Fantu Cheru
American University, Washington, DC Globalizati...