San Antonio College Library

"Reconfiguration of financial systems is one of the prime topics in global finance today. National economics rely heavily on the efficiency and dynamism of the financial system. Allocating and reallocating capital promotes growth by supporting emerging industries and cleaning-out declining sectors. Identifying which kind of system does this most effectively is of great interest to policy makers as well as managers directly involved in the financial...

Katherine Marshall presents a concise, accessible and comprehensive overview of The World Bank's history, development, structure, functionality and activities.

This book is about the problems of organization and reorganization as much as it is about the problems of assisting third-world development, and it is a case study in flawed organizational reform as much as a critique of the way development assistance is managed.--[book jacket].

"Uncovering the World Bank's loan programs in the developing world, author Steve Berkman finds nothing but mismanagement and hypocrisy. Using internal reports and memos, project documents and the Bank's Annual Reports as reference, Berkman demonstrates management's obsession with lending despite the high fiduciary risks involved. Taking the reader inside several project fraud investigations, he exposes the ease with which funds can be stolen from...

A look at how the world's leading financial institutions - the IMF, World Bank and WTO - have been hijacked by the economic ideology of neoliberalism and the interest behind it, particularly from the 1980s onwards and in relation to their global financial, developmental and trade management roles.

The mandate of multilateral institutions defines them as technical & functional institutions. This text challenges that view, arguing that they are political organizations & that their programmes have a significant impact on the domestic policies of the many countries in which they are involved.

The World Bank is the single biggest source of finance for international development, and its policies have a critical impact on the future of more than 110 borrowing countries. In this dramatic and lively new critique, Bruce Rich, internationally known expert on the environment and the World Bank, analyzes how the Bank has become a seemingly unstoppable and often destructive environmental and political force. The author chronicles the life-and-death...

"Fuel for Change, with its evidence and case studies from a wide variety of countries in both the Third World and the transitional economies of Eastern Europe, examines the World Bank's new energy policies. It seeks to add to the pressure on the Bank to shift its capital lending and policy advice in favour of sustainable energy, including serious investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and energy provision for the rural poor." "This...

As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments - most notably the United States - came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase...

There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic central bankers to violent video games and high levels of testosterone among the denizens of trading floors. There is not even agreement on whether the crisis shows a need for more government...