The Globalizers: The Imf, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

by Ngaire Woods

Book Overview

"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy."--from the IntroductionThe greatest success of the International...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474205
• ISBN13: 9780801474200
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher