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International Economic Co-Operation and the World Bank (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,541
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International Economic Co-Operation and the World Bank (Hardcover, New Ed): Robert W. Oliver

International Economic Co-Operation and the World Bank (Hardcover, New Ed)

Robert W. Oliver

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On December 14, 1945, the House of Commons voted 314 to 50 to ratify the Agreements negotiated at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, nearly a year and a half earlier. Lord Keynes had returned from Washington to defend the Fund and the Bank, of which he and Harry White were the principal authors, as well as to justify an American loan to Britain - following President Harry S. Truman's abrupt postwar decision to terminate all land-lease assistance to its wartime allies, an event which induced the Conservative MP Robert Boothby, to declare: "This is our economic Munich". Today, fifty years later, virtually all the governments of the world have become members, and the capital subscriptions have increased many fold. But questions have arisen. Perhaps the Fund and the Bank should be merged. Some argue that fifty years are enough, at least for the Bank. Others believe that, while expansion should continue, the emphasis should be redirected toward the alleviation of poverty in Africa and southern Asia. This is an account of the historic events of the interwar years and after. It is also a story about the liberal philosophies of the political economists, primarily British and American, who produ

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 1996
Authors: Robert W. Oliver
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 421
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-66116-1
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN: 0-333-66116-8
Barcode: 9780333661161

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