Losing the global development war : a contemporary critique of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO / / John W. Head.

• Author: Head, John W. 1953-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nijhoff eBook titles 2008
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Chapter One. The Fourth World War /; Chapter Two. A Cacophony Of Criticisms—Attacking The Global Economic Organizations /; Chapter Three. What Are The Global Economic Organizations? /; Chapter Four. Battles Over The Geos’ Policies And Operations /; Chapter Five. Battles Over The Geos’ Character, Control, And Reach /; Chapter Six. The Current Front In The Global Development War— How (And Whether) To Reform The Geos? /; About The Author /; Selected Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index.
• ISBN: 1282397591; 9786612397592; 9047440366
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John W. Head.

This book offers a new perspective in examining the key global economic organizations - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank (and its regional counterparts), and the World Trade Organization. Aimed at ordinary informed readers, the text draws upon the author's many years of familiarity with these organizations to evaluate them from a legal and policy perspective, touching on issues of \'mission creep,\' \'democracy deficit,\' and more. The book depicts such issues as the central struggles in a \'Global Development War\' that is now being lost because of certain ideological and institutional failings that currently afflict the global institutions. That war can be won, the author asserts, only by adopting an ideology of liberal, intelligent, participatory, multilateral, and sustainable human development.