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Date: 21 ÉÀÎÑ 2000 Ç. 15:18
Subject: [PEN-L:20456] [fla-left] Fw: Dying for Growth (fwd)
>forwarded by Michael Hoover
>
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>> >=== Dying for Growth ===
>> >
>> > The ideology most responsible for promoting a vision of economic
growth
>> >as good in and of itself has also shaped development discourse and
policy
>> >choices among key international institutions since the late 1970s.
>> >Historically, this ideology has been known under various names:
>> >"neoliberalism," "the Washington consensus," "Reaganism," "the New Right
>> >Agenda," and "corporate-led economic globalization," to name a few. This
>> >view asserts that economic growth is by definition good for everyone and
>> >that economic performance is optimized when governments refrain from
>> >interfering in markets. Thus, for the good of all citizens, governments
>> >should grant the greatest possible autonomy to individual market
>> >actors--companies in particular. Unsurprisingly, the main advocates of
>> >neoliberal policies--governments of wealthy countries, banks,
>> >corporations, and investors--are those who have profited most handsomely
>> >from their application.
>> >
>> >The proponents of neoliberal principles argue that economic growth
>> >promoted in this way will eventually "trickle down" to improve the lives
>> >of the poor. Increasingly, however, such predictions have proved hollow.
>> >In many cases, economic policies guided by neoliberal agendas have
>> >worsened the economic situation of the middle classes and the poor.
Today,
>> >per capita income in more than 100 countries is lower than it was 15
years
>> >ago. At the close of two decades of neoliberal dominance in
international
>> >finance and development, more than 1.6 billion people are worse off
>> >economically in the late 1990s than they were in the early 1980s. While
>> >most of the worlds's poor are dying--in the sense of yearning--to reap
>> >some of the benefits of this growth, others are literally dying from the
>> >austerity measures imposed to promote it.
>> >
>> >--From "Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor,"
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