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... Bank on Brazil's Polonoreste Project , a $ 1.25 billion scheme to develop 158,000 square miles of western Brazil , an area equivalent to the entire state of Califor- nia . The experience was not a happy one . My experience as a ...
... Bank on Brazil's Polonoreste Project , a $ 1.25 billion scheme to develop 158,000 square miles of western Brazil , an area equivalent to the entire state of Califor- nia . The experience was not a happy one . My experience as a ...
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... Bank for such a program : and ( c ) the eval- uation and monitoring of such a program would be done by full- time staff members of the World Bank and the FUNAI , without the aid of outside authorities such as professional ...
... Bank for such a program : and ( c ) the eval- uation and monitoring of such a program would be done by full- time staff members of the World Bank and the FUNAI , without the aid of outside authorities such as professional ...
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Edward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard. Bank was not the sole development bank lacking concern for the ecological effects of its projects . “ Up to 1981 , " as he pointed out , " the Inter - American Development Bank ( IADB ) did not even ...
Edward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard. Bank was not the sole development bank lacking concern for the ecological effects of its projects . “ Up to 1981 , " as he pointed out , " the Inter - American Development Bank ( IADB ) did not even ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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