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Economics, Jobs & Trade - Reference
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Latin America's Shock Resistance |
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by Naomi Klein -- Nov. 14, 2007 -- For the past thirty-five years in Latin America, shocks from outside have served to create the political conditions required to justify the imposition of “shock therapy”–the constellation of corporate-friendly “emergency” economic measures like large-scale privatizations and deep cuts to social spending that debilitate the state in the name of free markets. (Full Article) |
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The Real Roots of Poverty |
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by Tom DeWeese -- July 27, 2007 -- To date, nearly every effort to eradicate poverty has focused on temporary relief of the suffering rather than getting to the root of the poverty and creating real solutions to actually eradicate poverty permanently. In fact, such programs may actually make the situation worse. (Full Article)
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Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries |
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by Sanjay Suri -- March 21, 2007 -- The new free trade agreements being signed up between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report Tuesday. (Full Article) |
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South-South Trade Boom Reshapes Global Order |
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by Thalif Deen -- Dec. 25, 2006 -- The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South. (Full Article) |
by Muhammad Yunus -- Jan. 2003 -- "Grameen" credit is based on the premise that the poor have skills which remain unutilised or under-utilised. It is definitely not the lack of skills which make poor people poor. Grameen believes that the poverty is not created by the poor, it is created by the institutions and policies which surround them. (Full Article)
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by Hernando de Soto -- May, 2002 -- A lecture given by Hernando de Soto which outlines many of the concepts in his book "The Mystery of Capital." (Full Article) Christian Berry interview with Hernando de Soto on The Mystery of Capital. (Full Article)
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“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” John Schaar
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