01904nam a22002897a 4500 20220114094950.0 220114b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0745308333 AL eng 23 337.73 BELD Walden Bello and others 13169 Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty Malaysia Third World Network 1994 xii.148 p. PB 21x14 cm. 125.00 ₹ 125.00 As 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. United States Politics and Government 1980 13158 United States Relations-Third World 13170 International Monetary Fund-Third World Countries 13171 World Bank-Third World Countries 13172 Third World-Economic Policy-1980 13173 BELLO (Walden) 13164 CUNNINGHHAM (Shea) 13165 RAU (Bill) 13166 ddc GF 221183 221183 0 0 ddc 0 0 ECO AL AL 2013-03-24 0 337.73 BELD GF03372 2022-01-14 00:00:00 2022-01-14 GF