The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Global Research
Published: September 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780973714708
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Banks & Banking; International - Economics; Poverty; Globalization; Developing countries; Europe, Eastern; Economic Conditions
First sentence: Since the early 1980s, the "macro-economic stabilization" and structural adjustment programs imposed by the IMF and the World Bank on developing countries (as a condition for the renegotiation of their external debt) have led to the impoverishment of hundreds of millions of people.