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

Robert H. Wade

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: policy norms; rainforests; indigenous peoples; World Bank; environmental NGOs; government of Brazil; US Congress; Indonesian Transmigration Project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 O13 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07-01
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Published in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1, July, 2016, 36(3), pp. 646-663. ISSN: 1809-4538

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