01785nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000280010924500780013726000400021530000300025536500240028552009380030965000470124765000400129465000540133465000370138865000370142570000190146271000230148171000150150420220114094950.0220114b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0745308333  cAL  aeng  223a337.73bBELD  aWalden Bello and others  aDark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty  aMalaysiabThird World Networkc1994  axii.148 p.bPBc21x14 cm.  b125.00c₹d125.00  aAs we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger. At the same time, working people in the North find their living standards declining. Dark Victory reveals the roots of these global trends in a sweeping strategy of global economic rollback unleashed by the US to shore up the North’s domination of the international economy and reassert corporate control.
Bello argues that lower barriers to imports, removal of restrictions on foreign investments, privatization of state-owned activities, reduction in social welfare spending, and wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies–all conditions of structural adjustment loans from the North-have had disastrous consequences. Hailed as a classic study of global poverty, Dark Victory is now reissued with a new epilogue by the authors.  aUnited States Politics and Government 1980  aUnited States Relations-Third World  aInternational Monetary Fund-Third World Countries  aWorld Bank-Third World Countries  aThird World-Economic Policy-1980  aBELLO (Walden)  aCUNNINGHHAM (Shea)  aRAU (Bill)