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Squeezing the south

The NI crashes the birthday party of the Bretton Woods Conference that laid the groundwork for the post-World War Two economy and set up the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. We offer a diagnosis of the infirmities of middle age and some irreverent suggestions for change.

July 1994, Issue 257

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50 years is enough
Richard Swift shows how the Bretton Woods Conference helped shape a global economy built on inequality and waste - and how people all over the world are fighting back.
That martini magic
An irreverent look at World Bank apologetics by Joanne Henderson.
Riders of the apocalypse
The new World Trade Organization has put the environmental issue on its agenda. But this is cold comfort for environmental activists, as Pratap Chatterjee explains.
SAP is really sapping us
Ayesha Imam looks at how structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) are adding to African women's heavy burdens.
Simply - how Bretton Woods reordered the world
Adjusting structures, destroying lives
A structural adjustment map of the world.
Heretic in Babylon
An interview with former World Bank economist Herman Daly.
The 50 years is enough campaign
An action guide.
Life and death in the free zone
Mark Fried dissects the pinstripe revolution in Latin America which has turned tin miners into street vendors.
Fast money
Now you see it, now you don't. Brahm Eiley on the way the modern casino economy can produce instant wealth for a few but little else.

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