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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,"
edited Jim Young Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/kim_growth.html
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