Topic IMF
Flow — For The Love of Water
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Flow -- For The Love Of Water builds a case against the growing privatisation of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with a specific focus on human rights, pollution, the politic and the emergence of a domineering water cartel. The film names and clearly documents many of the culprits, while asking the question -- can anyone really own water?
The Take
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The Take documents the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who reclaim control of a closed auto-plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative. The factory closed as a result of the economic policies of the government under the watchful eye of the IMF. While in bankruptcy protection, the company appeared to be selling off property and inventory to pay creditors -- a move which further reduced the chances of the facility returning to production. Though as the movement gains strength, having started with a garment factory several years earlier, the factory workers wade through courts and the legislative system, finally establishing their own control and winning the right to operate it themselves, as a cooperative...
War By Other Means
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John Pilger examines the policy of western banks making loans with third world countries, which are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges -- debt is a weapon. It also analyses 'Structural Adjustment Programs', which are proclaimed to enable countries to compete in the global economy, but have the opposite effect of lowering wages which in turn further transfers the wealth from the poor to the rich...
The Great African Scandal
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Robert Beckford visits Ghana to investigate the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold and why, 50 years after independence, a country so rich in 'natural resources' is one of the poorest in the world. He discovers child labourers farming cocoa instead of attending school and asks if the activities of multinationals, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have actually made the country’s problems worse...
The New Rulers of The World
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The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter. But what is globalisation? And where is this global village? In some respects you are already living in it. The clothes in your local store were probably stitched together in the factories of Asia. Much of the food in your local supermarket will have been grown in Africa...
Life and Debt
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Life and Debt addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalisation policies in a country such as Jamaica. By focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans, the situation unfolds that the strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas...