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Values in Translation - Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank (Hardcover, New)
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Values in Translation - Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank (Hardcover, New)
Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights
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The World Bank is the largest lender to developing countries,
making loans worth over $20 billion per year to finance development
projects around the globe. To guide its investments, the Bank has
adopted a number of social and environmental policies, yet it has
never instituted any overarching policy on human rights. Despite
the potential human rights impact of Bank projects--the forced
displacement of indigenous peoples resulting from a Bank-financed
dam project, for example--the issue of human rights remains
marginal in the Bank's operational practices.
"Values in Translation" analyzes the organizational culture of the
World Bank and addresses the question of why it has not adopted a
human rights framework. Academics and social advocates have
typically focused on legal restrictions in the Bank's Articles of
Agreement. This work's anthropological analysis sheds light on
internal obstacles including the employee incentive system and a
clash of expertise between lawyers and economists over how to
define human rights and justify their relevance to the Bank's
mission.
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