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Research paper thumbnail of Report of the Informal Meeting of Energy Research Donors held at the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 20-21, Apr. 1982

Research paper thumbnail of China's Great Leap Backward

International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of The World Bank and the IMF in Sub-Saharan Africa: Undermining Development and Environmental Sustainability

Journal of International Affairs, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of The World Bank’s Finances: an International Debt Crisis

Globalization and the South, 1997

Western governments that jointly own the World Bank with Third World governments have turned a bl... more Western governments that jointly own the World Bank with Third World governments have turned a blind eye to the perverse set of financial incentives and responsibilities on which the institution rests. The World Bank, the single largest source of development finance for Third World leaders and, according to Standard and Poor, itself ‘one of the world’s largest borrowers’, has played financial charades to hide irresponsible lending and to appear fiscally sound (quote from Standard and Poor’s Credit Analysis Service, 1993).

Research paper thumbnail of China's Great Leap Backward: Uneconomic and Outdated, the Three Gorges Dam Will Stunt China's Economic Growth

International Journal, 1998

... China's great leap ... 4 simplified base scenario: assume 100% of electricity demand is ... more ... China's great leap ... 4 simplified base scenario: assume 100% of electricity demand is supplied by coal, generating 1000 arbitrary units of carbon dioxide emissions; heat load twice electricity load and cur-rendy met by coal in boilders with 75% fuel conversion efficiency; coal ...

Research paper thumbnail of Iraq's Odious Debts

Research paper thumbnail of Report of the Informal Meeting of Energy Research Donors held at the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 20-21, Apr. 1982

Research paper thumbnail of China's Great Leap Backward

International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of The World Bank and the IMF in Sub-Saharan Africa: Undermining Development and Environmental Sustainability

Journal of International Affairs, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of The World Bank’s Finances: an International Debt Crisis

Globalization and the South, 1997

Western governments that jointly own the World Bank with Third World governments have turned a bl... more Western governments that jointly own the World Bank with Third World governments have turned a blind eye to the perverse set of financial incentives and responsibilities on which the institution rests. The World Bank, the single largest source of development finance for Third World leaders and, according to Standard and Poor, itself ‘one of the world’s largest borrowers’, has played financial charades to hide irresponsible lending and to appear fiscally sound (quote from Standard and Poor’s Credit Analysis Service, 1993).

Research paper thumbnail of China's Great Leap Backward: Uneconomic and Outdated, the Three Gorges Dam Will Stunt China's Economic Growth

International Journal, 1998

... China's great leap ... 4 simplified base scenario: assume 100% of electricity demand is ... more ... China's great leap ... 4 simplified base scenario: assume 100% of electricity demand is supplied by coal, generating 1000 arbitrary units of carbon dioxide emissions; heat load twice electricity load and cur-rendy met by coal in boilders with 75% fuel conversion efficiency; coal ...

Research paper thumbnail of Iraq's Odious Debts

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