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The globalization of poverty and the new world order /

"This new, expanded edition of the international best-seller outlines the contours of a New World Order, which feeds on human poverty, destroys the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages ethnic strife, and undermines the rights of women. The result, as detailed examples from all pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chossudovsky, Michel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pincourt, Québec : Global Research, ©2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
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.
International Monetary Fund.
World Bank.
Fonds monétaire international > Pays en voie de développement.
Fonds monétaire international > Europe d'Est.
Banque mondiale > Pays en voie de développement.
Banque mondiale > Europe d'Est.
Pauvreté > Pays en voie de développement.
Pauvreté > Europe de l'Est.
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Poverty
Developing countries
Eastern Europe
Internationaler Währungsfonds
Armut
Table of 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.