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Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR...
Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]
"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2%...
Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]
"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes...
Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]
"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago...
Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]
"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income,...
Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]
"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years,...