Topic world bank
Confessions of An Economic Hit Man
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a presentation by John Perkins, based on the book by the same name published by him in 2004. Perkins provides an account of his career with consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston and how that before his employment with that firm, he was interviewed for a job with the National Security Agency, detailing later that this interview effectively constituted an 'independent screening' which led to his subsequent hiring by Einar Greve, a member of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison) to become a self-described economic hit-man...
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...