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Democratizing the Global Economy
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Democratizing the Global Economy
The Battle Against The World Bank and the IMF
by Global Exchange

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Edition: paper, 221 pages
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In Democratizing the Global Economy, dozens of top-notch activists and educators examine the mounting protests against the World Bank and IMF, why these lenders have finally generated such heated opposition and what the global justice movement proposes replacing them with in order to build a democratic global economy For half a century the International Monetary Fund and the World BankÖtwo of the most powerful institutions on EarthÖoperated in near-total secrecy. Now, an international grassroots movement is exposing these elite operations to the uncomfortably bright light of public scrutiny.

Some of the authors included are:

* Fidel Castro on the need for poor nations to unite against corporate rule;

* Robert Naiman on how IMF and World Bank policies lower wages and encourage sweatshops;

* Carol Welch on how economic lending institutions are used for corporate welfare;

* Robert Weissman on how most debt relief programs have been little more than a PR stunt;

* Terry Allen on police brutality and recent government efforts to chill activism;

* Naomi Klein on how criticism of protestors' "lack of vision" has often missed the point;

* Deborah James on twelve ways to democratize the global economy;

* And many, many more. .





 
     
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