This is the story of good intentions gone wrong--of misdirected science, environmental degradation, mathematical formulae run amok. It began in 1945 with a pledge to bring the third world into the first, with the help of a powerful world bank, designed to finance the takeoff of the poorest countries. Fifty years later the gap between the rich and the underdeveloped nations is wider than ever. This is the story of the making of a quagmire of debt and impoverishment.
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This is the story of good intentions gone wrong--of misdirected science, environmental degradation, mathematical formulae run amok. It began in 1945 with a pledge to bring the third world into the first, with the help of a powerful world bank, designed to finance the takeoff of the poorest countries. Fifty years later the gap between the rich and the underdeveloped nations is wider than ever. This is the story of the making of a quagmire of debt and impoverishment.
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Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. Fine copy, with dust wrapper, in very good condition. Minor shelf wear on jacket. Interior clean and unmarked......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. Size: 6x1x9; 432 clean, unmarked, tight pages; cover is clean and sturdy with a small dent on lower front edge; very light shelf and corner wear on dust jacket.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; [From the library of Benjamin B. King. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Related ephemera taped to verso. Clean, unmarked pages. King is mentioned in this volume. "Benjamin B. King was an intelligence officer for the British Royal Air Force during World War II and long time employee of the World Bank. After World War 2 broke out in Europe in September 1939, he joined the British Royal Air Force as a 'penguin' who could not fly because of eyesight problems. He was assigned to Coastal Command at the airbase in Wick in the very north of Scotland, which provided defense for Britain in the North Sea, engaging the Germany Navy and Air Force. After his stint at Wick, Ben was transferred to the vital but vulnerable British base at Gibraltar off the coast of Spain, where the British monitored German and Italian military operations in the Western Mediterranean. While in Gibraltar, one of his tasks was to listen to Luftwaffe radio communications and track the movement of German and Italian airplanes. After Gibraltar, Ben was called back to Britain and assigned to the secret British code-breaking operations at Bletchley Park in England, which played a critical role in the Allies' war effort by monitoring and decoding German military communications and ultimately breaking the German Enigma code."-Obit.
