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Author Chossudovsky, Michel.

Title The globalization of poverty and the new world order / Michel Chossudovsky.

Imprint Pincourt, Quebec : Global Research, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  339.4609172 C456g 2003    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xxvi, 376 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note First ed. published under title: The globalisation of poverty : impacts of the IMF and World Bank.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.
Contents Introduction -- pt. 1. Global poverty and macro-economic reform. The globalization of poverty -- Global falsehoods -- Policing countries through loan "conditionalities" -- The World Bank and women's rights -- The global cheap-labor economy -- pt. 2. Sub-Saharan Africa. Somalia: the real causes of famine -- Economic genocide in Rwanda -- "Exporting apartheid" to sub-Saharan Africa -- Wreaking Ethiopia's peasant economy, destroying biodiversity -- pt. 3. South and Southeast Asia. India: the IMF's "indirect rule" -- Bangladesh: under the tutelage of the "aid" consortium -- The post-war economic destruction of Vietnam -- pt. 4. Latin America. Debt and "democracy" in Brazil -- IMF shock treatment in Peru -- Debt and the illegal drug economy: the case of Bolivia -- pt. 5. The former Soviet Union and the Balkans. The "thirdworldization" of the Russian Federation -- Dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonizing Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Albania's IMF sponsored financial disaster -- pt. 6. The new world order. Structural adjustment in the developed countries -- Global financial meltdown -- Economic warfare -- The recolonization of Korea -- The Brazilian financial scam.
Subject International Monetary Fund -- Developing countries.
International Monetary Fund -- Europe, Eastern.
World Bank -- Developing countries.
World Bank -- Europe, Eastern.
Poverty -- Developing countries.
Poverty -- Europe, Eastern.
Added Author Chossudovsky, Michel. Globalisation of poverty.
ISBN 0973714700
9780973714708
0973110910
9780973110913
Standard No. NLC 20039026485
YDXCP 2468365
NZ1 8733745
NLGGC 291890881
AU@ 000040076980

 
    
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