Regimes Of Risk: The World Bank And The Transformation Of Mining In Asia (Studies In The Political Economy Of Public Policy)

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.

• • Author: Pascale Hatcher
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Oct 02, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 207 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 113703131X
• • ISBN-13: 9781137031310