The globalisation of poverty: Impacts of IMF and world bank reforms
by Chossudovsky Michel
Published by : Other India Press (Goa) Physical details: 280p ISBN:81-85569-34-7.
Subject(s):
Poverty.
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International finance.
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International Monetary Fund.
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Internationalization of macro economic reform, cheap labour/labor economy, debt and macro economic reform in developed countries, global monopolies, collecting debt at world levels, conversion of private debts, fiscal crisis of state, under the political trusteeship of finance capital, illusory independence of central bank, crisis of state, global economic crisis
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Global poverty and macro economic reform : globalization of poverty, global geopolitics, social polarization and concentration of wealth, role of global institutions, IMF menu, economic genocide, destroying the national economy, dollarization of prices, thirdworldization of former eastern bloc, economic ideology distorts the causes of global poverty, manipulating the figures on global poverty
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Policing countries through loan conditionalities : Global debt, Marshall plan for rich countries, policy based lending, IMF shadow program, policy framework paper, IFIs lending facilities, economic stabilization, dollarization, devaluation, taking control of central bank, destabilizing nation's public finances, budget deficit, state investement, price liberalization, pricing of petroleum products and public utilities, structural reform, tax reform, land tenure and privatization of agricultural land, deregulation of banking systems, liberalizing capital movements, recycling dirty money towards debt servicing, poverty alleviation and social safety net, good governance, IMF tacitly acknowledges policy failure, social impact of macro economic reform, restructuring of health sector, resurgence of communicable diseases
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Global cheap labour/labor economy : Macro- economic reform supports the relocation of industry, industrial export promotion, global adjustment, world unemployment, declining wages, plant world wide compression of consumer spending, development of luxury consumption, globalization of manufacturing, import led growth in rich countries, wages and labor costs in developed countries, immobility of labor, non material production, impact of scientific revolution, delocation of services economy
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Sub Saharan Africa : Somalia- real causes of famine, economic genocide in Rwanda
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South and south east Asia : India- IMF's indirect rule, Bangladesh- under tutelage of aid consortium, post war economic destruction of Vietnam
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Latin America : Debt and democracy in Brazil, IMF shock treatment in Peru, APRA, world bank, debt and illegal drug economy in Bolivia
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Formers soviet union and the Balkans : Thirdworldization of Russian federation, dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonizing Bosnia- Herzegovina
Year: 2001
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