Boulevard to broken dreams, part 2: implementation of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's response to the gathering storm

Wade, Robert H. (2016) Boulevard to broken dreams, part 2: implementation of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's response to the gathering storm. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 36 (3). pp. 646-663. ISSN 1809-4538

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This is the second part of the essay on the circumstances that led the World Bank to embrace norms and operational policies for environmental and indigenous people's protection in the late 1980s, as traced through the turbulent history of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon. Polonoroeste became the spearhead with which environmental NGOs made their first attack on the Bank for participating in large-scale environmental and indigenous peoples' destruction.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.rep.org.br/current_issue.asp
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author © CC BY 4.0
Divisions:	International Development
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HG Finance
JEL classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O13 - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2016 08:14
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2024 16:10
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68108

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