IMF policies 'led to Malawi famine'
Ezequiel Burgo and Heather Stewart
Tuesday October 29, 2002
The Guardian
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank face fresh criticism
today as campaigners blame their privatisation policies for the devastating
famine in Malawi earlier this year
Did the IMF cause a famine?
Barbara Gunnell
New Statesman, Monday 24th June 2002
Malawi faces starvation - after, it seems, heeding western advice on
managing food stocks. By Barbara Gunnell
As the world food summit ended in Rome this month in a drizzle of
non-action (non-attendance
The last paragraph of this article is quite a statement As Marcus de Moraes,
Brazil's Minister of Agriculture, puts it: If we eliminated agricultural
subsidies for 24 days, we would eliminate hunger in the world.
The reasoning in this article doesn't make sense to me. Presumably, the
Brazilian
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27151] Re: The IMF and Malawi famine
I haven't read the article in question (yet), but I'm trying to get this e-mail program so that people can read it. This is a test, though I do comment on Sam's comment below.
I vaguely remember having changed the encoding at some point
At 09:43 AM 6/24/2002 -0700, Sam Pawlett wrote:
The Brazilian should read A.Sen.
The Observer (London) Sunday June 16, 2002
WHY HALF THE PLANET IS HUNGRY
AMARTYA SEN, (Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, is
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. This is a longer version
the test was not successful. ask Louis Proyect, who knows about such
things. I bet that he has a solution.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Jim gave a good summary of the argument. I would only add two
points.First, when the peasant farmers succumb to the
subsidized imports, many will go to the cities. Second, on the
farms, they produced their own food. The market will regard them
as failures as because it only concerns itself
The Times (London), May 29, 2002
IMF accused of causing food crisis in Malawi
The International Monetary Fund has denied allegations that it was
partially responsible for the gathering famine in Malawi.
The Washington-based institution has been blamed for putting pressure on
President Muluzi
