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The globalisation of poverty : impacts of IMF and World Bank reforms /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chossudovsky, Michel
Corporate Authors: International Monetary Fund, World Bank
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, [1997]
Subjects:
International Monetary Fund > Developing countries.
International Monetary Fund > Europe, Eastern.
World Bank > Developing countries.
World Bank > Europe, Eastern.
Poverty > Developing countries.
Poverty > Europe, Eastern.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The globalisation of poverty
  • Ch. 2. Policing countries through loan "conditionalities"
  • Ch. 3. The global cheap-labour economy
  • Ch. 4. Somalia: the real causes of famine
  • Ch. 5. Economic genocide in Rwanda
  • Ch. 6. India: the IMF's "indirect rule"
  • Ch. 7. Bangladesh: under the tutelage of the "aid" consortium
  • Ch. 8. The post-war economic destruction of Vietnam
  • Ch. 9. Debt and "democracy" in Brazil
  • Ch. 10. IMF shock treatment in Peru
  • Ch. 11. Debt and the illegal drug economy: the case of Bolivia
  • Ch. 12. The thirdworldisation of the Russian Federation
  • Ch. 13. Dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonising Bosnia-Herzegovina.