With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. It details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised by the transplanting, hijacking and contesting of the WBG's mining agenda.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Pascale Hatcher
EAN: 9781349440818
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 271 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-01-01
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GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Asia, International relations, Economics, Development economics and emerging economies, Political economy, Finance and the finance industry
Pascale Hatcher is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
