Saturday, March 17, 2018

Wold Bank and IMF and the Beirut Reconstruction Plan

This is an excellent and succinct critique of the role of the World Bank and IMF and the Hariri plan of Beirut reconstruction:

Hourani, Najib, “From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: The Selling of the Beirut Souqs” in Gary McDonogh and Marina Peterson, eds.. Global Downtowns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.