Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World CountriesSarah Denny Anderson, International Forum on Globalization Food First Books and the International Forum on Globalization, 2000 - Business & Economics - 194 pages In December 1999, thousands of protesters took to the streets in the "Battle in Seattle." Their target was a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). For all its talk of being dedicated to the welfare of the Third World and the global poor, WTO rules and agreements actually further a "new colonialism" and directly subvert the power and voice of the Third World. This results in damage to local and national economics, and destruction of natural resources, livelihoods, jobs, and culture. Views from the South is a rare collection of essays by Third World activists and scholars who describe in pointed detail the effects of the WTO and other Bretton Woods institutions. They demand profound changes of these bureaucracies if they are permitted to survive. |
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HOW THE SOUTH IS GETTING | 7 |
Difficulties for Developing Countries Generated by the | 23 |
Pressure for New Issues | 31 |
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