- Paperback: 172 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press; New edition edition (20 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745314619
- ISBN-13: 978-0745314617
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,668,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Bello et al build their case with relentless scholarship. Even those who think they know the structural adjustment scenario inside out will be grateful to Bello for taking on the toughest cases for examination' Susan George 'This is one publication that will most definitely not go down well among the top brass at the Bretton Woods Institutions' West Africa'A book that progressive political leaders the world over should read and take to heart' David C. Korten, Executive Director of People-Centered Development Forum, New York'As informative and challenging as tomes three times its length' Arthur Shostak, Labor Studies Journal 'Can be read as a primer on how largely Western capitalist countries have wrecked the developing nations.' New Worker
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‘Bello et al build their case with relentless scholarship. Even those who think they know the structural adjustment scenario inside out will be grateful to Bello for taking on the toughest cases for examination.’ Susan George
‘A book that progressive political leaders the world over should read and take to heart...’ David C. Korten
Hunger and malnutrition stalk the countries of the South. Over the last twenty years, as the populations of these countries have increased, so too has mass poverty on a grotesque scale. In this fiercely critical study of Western aid giving, Walden Bello offers a persuasive argument that recolonisation of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks. Bello argues that neoliberalism or doctrinal free-market ideology came to power in the United States with an agenda to ‘discipline the Third World’ and the consequences of such a policy has resulted in lower barriers to imports, the removal of restrictions on foreign investments, privatisation of state owned activities, a reduction in social welfare spending, wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies. Recipients of ‘structural adjustment’ loans from the West, have been forced to accept these polices, with disastrous consequences. Hailed as a classic study of global poverty, Dark Victory is now reissued with a substantial new epilogue by the author.
‘A book that progressive political leaders the world over should read and take to heart...’ David C. Korten
Hunger and malnutrition stalk the countries of the South. Over the last twenty years, as the populations of these countries have increased, so too has mass poverty on a grotesque scale. In this fiercely critical study of Western aid giving, Walden Bello offers a persuasive argument that recolonisation of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks. Bello argues that neoliberalism or doctrinal free-market ideology came to power in the United States with an agenda to ‘discipline the Third World’ and the consequences of such a policy has resulted in lower barriers to imports, the removal of restrictions on foreign investments, privatisation of state owned activities, a reduction in social welfare spending, wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies. Recipients of ‘structural adjustment’ loans from the West, have been forced to accept these polices, with disastrous consequences. Hailed as a classic study of global poverty, Dark Victory is now reissued with a substantial new epilogue by the author.
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