TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walden Bello and others
AU  - BELLO (Walden)
ED  - CUNNINGHHAM (Shea)
ED  - RAU (Bill)
TI  - Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty
SN  - 0745308333
U1  - 337.73 23
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Malaysia
PB  - Third World Network
KW  - United States Politics and Government 1980
KW  - United States Relations-Third World
KW  - International Monetary Fund-Third World Countries
KW  - World Bank-Third World Countries
KW  - Third World-Economic Policy-1980
N2  - 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
ER  -