Fifty Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

by Kevin Danaher (Editor), Muhammad Yunus (Preface)

As the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) celebrate fifty years of economic dominion over the Third World, this reader brings the best progressive authors together to critique these two main proponents of neo-liberalism. 50 Years is Enough covers such topics as failed development projects, the feminization of poverty, the detruction of the environment, the internal workings of the World Bank and the IMF, and the struggle to build alternatives to neo-liberal policies.It also includes a guide to the many organizations involved in the struggle to reform the World Bank and the IMF.

Genres: Economics, History, Finance

207 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1994

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 2 out of 5]

i rather like the leftwing critique here of the practices and effects of the bretton woods institutions, though the notion that they still persist in their original form is erroneous, and the concept of the institutions is not awful (i.e., more international integration is always good).

[Marcelo CB6 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow!
If it would not be for this book, I couldn't have known how silly we were. We were not so smart on allowing a group of few take away all our money which is so unfair. The law of the most brilliant! There is always a way to get rich but there is just one path to do the things right.

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