Mission Unaccomplished

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 Introduction The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship from the fields of economics, law, and politics. The Globalizers focuses on both the political context of IMF and World Bank actions and their impact on the countries in which they intervene. After describing the important debates between U.S. planners and the Allies in the 1944 foundation at Bretton Woods, she analyzes understandings of their missions over the last quarter century. She traces the impact of the Bank and the Fund in the recent economic history of Mexico, of post-Soviet Russia, and in the independent states of Africa. Woods concludes by proposing a range of reforms that would make the World Bank and the IMF more effective, equitable, and just.

Authority is the right to use power in a particular realm or area. authority and power goes together. Men can have power without authority, but you cannot have authority without power. Power is very important but power without authority is useless. . Authority is what make your power meaningful. Power is not in full effect until it is power-full for a believer’s power to be power-full he must carry the authority of God. Just like you cannot survive in life without power so you cannot reign in life without authority.

A sassy combination of motherhood wit and wisdom, this collection of humorous tales are from three years of a celebrated back-page column of the popular South African magazine, Living and Loving. In a voice that is both entertaining and endearing, these columns touch on a wide range of parenting issues from naps and parties to potty-training and breast-feeding. Filled with practical, bite-sized advice, this collection is presented chronologically and thematically and puts words to common motherhood emotions, which is crucial for mothers who feel they have lost their voice.

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Change without Chaos makes out a convincing case for fundamental constitutional reform in Jamaica and advances a template upon which this transformation can be attained. The central argument is grounded on the fact that the Jamaican economy has not been able to register substantial growth for over fifty years since independence in 1962 and currently has some of the most unflattering development indices in the entire Western Hemisphere. The book, which is grounded in extensive legal research, raises issues of persistent and pervasive class exploitation and a grossly iniquitous economic system, which continues to contribute to a scandalous income disparity and wealth transfer as elements that must be addressed urgently by a far-reaching review of the constitutional framework if the country is ever to realize any meaningful growth and development.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Does God exist? When God took me, the author, into the countless heavens, He said to me, “Come inside of me. Let's fly vertically. You shall experience how my existence and everything else began in detail.” At this point of dark eternity, God revealed and promised me, “Where you are standing now, there has never been any being, nor any human soul, before. You will be called my eternal heart. Return to mankind and reveal to them: Who I am. Reveal everything you have heard, seen and experienced. I will always be with you. A few thousand years ago, I appeared as a visible God on Mount Sinai. But My own chosen people did not recognize My value. Tell humanity and the German nation: I swear by your name, Zahid, that if you call my name and ask me to come to earth, I will appear on a mountain in Germany. Everyone who is on the mountain on that day will see me with their own eyes as a visible God. Prepare my children for this most supreme event.” God