Masters of illusion : the World Bank and the poverty of nations /
By: Caufield, Catherine.
Publisher: London : Macmillan, 1997, c1996Description: xii, 432 p. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0333662628 :; 9780333662625:.Subject(s): World Bank -- History | Banks and banking, International -- History | Development banks -- History | Economic assistance -- Developing countries | Developing countries -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 330.9 Summary: With a pledge to bring the Third World into the First, the World Bank has become the most secretive and impenetrable of all financial institutions. This is an account of the bank that isn't a bank and its impact on the world in the last 50 years.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Withdrawn | 330.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0035421 |
Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1996.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 395-403.
With a pledge to bring the Third World into the First, the World Bank has become the most secretive and impenetrable of all financial institutions. This is an account of the bank that isn't a bank and its impact on the world in the last 50 years.