50 Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary FundAs the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) celebrate fifty years of economic dominion over the Third World, this reader brings the best progressive authors together to critique these two main proponents of neo-liberalism. 50 Years is Enough covers such topics as failed development projects, the feminization of poverty, the detruction of the environment, the internal workings of the World Bank and the IMF, and the struggle to build alternatives to neo-liberal policies.It also includes a guide to the many organizations involved in the struggle to reform the World Bank and the IMF. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
How Northern | 14 |
IMFWorld Bank Wreak Havoc on Third World | 20 |
The Debt Boomerang | 29 |
The Doctrine of Odious Debts | 35 |
Drowning in Debt | 44 |
World Bank and IMF Adjustment Lending in Chile | 51 |
Little World Banks | 183 |
RESOURCE GROUPS | 190 |
ABOUT GLOBAL EXCHANGE | 208 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | 50 Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund A Project of Global Exchange Series |
| Editor | Kevin Danaher |
| Publisher | South End Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0896084957, 9780896084957 |
| Length | 210 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Banks & Banking Political Science / General Political Science / Political Economy |
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