Local/Global Encounters
Development (2006) 49, 106–110. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100289
The New El Dorado in Romania: The State and The World Bank against local development1
Don Kalb
1 I am grateful to Ileana Benga of the Romanian Academy of Sciences of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, for providing essential information and to Wendy Harcourt for her thoughtful editing.
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Abstract
Don Kalb looks at the resistance of local Romanian communitites to the Rossia Montana venture and how it is failing to promote sustainable private sector investment but rather endanger people's lives and the environment they depend on.
Keywords:
gold mining, environmental destruction, cultural degradation, pollution, post-socialism
