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A New Development Paradigm Domestic Demand-Led Growth: Why It Is Needed & How to Make It Happen

By Thomas I. Palley, FPIF Discussion Paper September 2002. The Washington consensus, with its emphasis on export-led growth, has failed. It is time for a new development policy agenda that focuses on domestic demand-led growth. Achieving such an outcome will require a new constellation of policies. Domestic demand-led growth rests on four pillars: (1) improved income distribution, (2) good governance, (3) financial stability and space for counter-cyclical stabilization policy, and (4) an adequate, fairly priced supply of development finance. The policies needed to put these pillars in place are (1) labor and democratic rights, (2) appropriate reform and regulation of the financial architecture, and (3) a combination of debt relief, increased foreign aid, and increased development assistance provided through expanded SDRs.

http://www.fpif.org/papers/development.html

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A Short History of Neo-Liberalism: Twenty Years of Elite Economics and Emerging Opportunities for Structural Change, by Susan George

At the international level, neo-liberals have concentrated all their efforts on three fundamental points: free trade in goods and services, free circulation of capital, and freedom of investment. Over the past twenty years, the IMF has been strengthened enormously. Thanks to the debt crisis and the mechanism of conditionality, it has moved from balance of payments support to being quasi-universal dictator of so-called "sound" economic policies, meaning of course neo-liberal ones.

http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Globalism/george.htm

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Africa Development Indicators 2007

Africa Development Indicators 2007 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries. Findings suggest that the economic outlook for Africa is improving (World Bank, 2007)

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTSTATINAFR/Resources/adi2007_final.pdf

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Agricultural advisory services and the Market [pdf]

Christoplos. Natural Resource Perspectives 113, April 2008. This paper presents findings of a review of over thirty case studies of field level experience in promoting market orientation in agricultural advisory services (Ian Christoplos, ODI, March 2008) .

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/nrp/NRP113.pdf

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Argentina Didn't Fall on Its Own: Wall Street Pushed Debt Till the Last

(www.truthout.org) By Paul Blustein, The Washington Post, Sunday 03 August, 2003. BUENOS AIRES - Ah, the memories: Feasting on slabs of tender Argentine steak. Skiing at a resort overlooking a shimmering lake in the Andes. And late-night outings to a "gentlemen's club" in a posh Buenos Aires neighborhood. Such diversions awaited the investment bankers, brokers and money managers who flocked to Argentina in the late 1990s. In those days, Wall Street firms touted Argentina as one of the world's hottest economies as they raked in fat fees for marketing the country's stocks and bonds. Thus were sown the seeds of one of the most spectacular economic collapses in modern history, a debacle in which Wall Street played a major role.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080703J.shtml

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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK 2001

Notwithstanding the less hospitable external environment, the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2001 is cautiously optimistic that the prospects for the Asian and Pacific region remain moderate and will improve by 2002. However, there are significant challenges that the region has to address including taking appropriate policies to maintain stable macroeconomy , promote prudent financial policies and adopt sound regulatory practices. There are also significant downside risks in the near-term outlook if the global slowdown persists.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2001/default.asp#contents

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Bolivia: A Crossroads for the Future of Latin America

By Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), November 5, 2003. In Latin America, all eyes are focused on Bolivia. Men and women committed to the causes of the indigenous and popular movements look on the recent events there as a difficult and prolonged birthing. From all over--from Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Mexico--they have expressed their overwhelming sympathy for the courage with which the Bolivian people have defended their natural resources and made inroads for building a future different from the neoliberal present of misery and death.

http://www.americaspolicy.org/commentary/2003/0311bolivia.html

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Bolivian Gas -- a Californian Pipe Dream?

By Alistair Scrutton, Reuters, Fri Jun 27 2003, 8:04 AM ET All Bolivia had to do was negotiate with companies eager to pipe out trillions of cubic feet of gas to energy-hungry California, then wait a few years before enjoying the sweet smell of royalties for the next two decades. In practice, a $6 billion plan to develop Latin America's second-biggest gas reserves is in a quagmire, delayed for more than a year due to a potent cocktail of civil unrest and a century-old border dispute with Chile that could sink a project soon to face stiff competitors such as Russian gas fields.

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/bolivia/txt/2003/0627pipedream.htm

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Bolivian Uprising Blow to Corporate Globalization

Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 10:17 am Article: From the radio newsmagazine Between The Lines Interview with Jim Schultz, executive director of the Democracy Center, conducted by Scott Harris Listen in RealAudio: http://www.btlonline.org/schultz103103.ram After weeks of rising popular anger and police violence which killed some 75 protesters, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigned from office and fled to Miami. The latest in a series of confrontations between the country's poor majority indigenous population and the government involved widespread opposition to a deal that would have sold Bolivian natural gas to the U.S. and Mexico, via a Chilean port.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0310/S00225.htm

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Bolivian Workers Out

By Stratfor 29/9/03 10:30 A number of Bolivian unions, peasant farmers and university students launched a national strike on Sept. 29 to force the resignation of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. This strike likely will fail to achieve its objective, but the president is unlikely to complete his term nonetheless. A government shake-up could occur within the next year unless the military steps in to support Sanchez de Lozada.

http://www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/article_7365.shtml

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Center for Economic and Policy Research

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, it is necessary that they be informed about the problems and choices that they face. CEPR is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options. Toward this end, CEPR conducts both professional research and public education. The professional research is oriented towards filling important gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social problems, or the impact of specific policies. The public education portion of CEPR's mission is to present the findings of professional research, both by CEPR and others, in a manner that allows broad segments of the public to know exactly what is at stake in major policy debates. An informed public should be able to choose policies that lead to an improving quality of life, both for people within the United States, and around the world. The goal of CEPR is ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest. CEPR was formed in November of 1999. Its founding scholars include Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, co-directors of CEPR, and Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts.

http://www.cepr.net/

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Complementary Community Currency Systems and Local Exchange Networks

Website on alternative/community currencies maintained by Bernard Lietaer, ex-head of Belgium's Central Bank. The site features: *Benefits *How Issued *Unit of Account *Exchange Rate *Incentives *Applications *Related Resources *Interact

http://www.transaction.net/money/community/

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Contagion: The Argentinian Crisis Spreads

A collection of articles and reports from the Third World Network on the expansion of the Argentinian crisis into a regional crisis. Includes reports and analyses of the genesis and development of the crisis in each of the three affected countries (Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil) as well as reports on the renewed criticism of the IMF's role in such crises. All the articles featured here have been taken from the Third World Resurgence magazine, Issue No. 143-144 (July-August 2002).

http://www.twnside.org.sg/focus.htm

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Crisis of the Globalist Project and the new economics of George W Bush

"Capitalism constantly erodes man and woman's being-in-nature (creature) and being-in-society (citizen) and, even as it drains them of life energy as workers, it moulds their consciousness around one role: that of consumer. Capitalism has many "laws of motion," but one of the most destructive as far as the environment goes is Say's law, which is that supply creates its own demand. Capitalism is a demand-creating machine that transforms living nature into dead commodities, natural wealth into dead capital." By Walden Bello, McPlanet Conference, Berlin, 27-29 June 2003.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=3920

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Dependency Theory's Reanimation in the Era of Financial Capital

by Kenneth Surin (1998). The published version of this paper appeared in the internet journal Cultural Logic, vol. 1, no. 2 (1998). A much shorter version was presented at a panel on post-marxist aporias at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in 1998.

http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/depenrea.htm

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Do as the US Says, Not as it Does by Joseph Stiglitz

Today, many emerging markets, from Indonesia to Mexico, are told that there is a certain code of conduct to which they must conform if they are to be successful. The message is clear: here is what advanced industrial countries do, and have done. To join the club, you must do the same. The reforms will be painful, vested interests will resist, but with enough political will, you will reap the benefits. Each country draws up a list of what's to be done, and each government is held accountable in terms of its performance. . . . Those in Mexico, Brazil, India and other emerging markets should be told a different message: do not strive for a mythical free-market economy, which has never existed. Do not follow the encomiums of US special interests because, although they preach free markets, back home they rely on the government to advance their aims. Instead, developing economies should look carefully, not at what the US says, but at what it did in the years when it emerged as an industrial power, and what it does today. There is a remarkable similarity between those policies and the activist measures pursued by the highly successful east Asian economies over the past two decades.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1073042,00.html

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004 [PDF]

UNESCO, 2004. The 2004 Survey examines poverty reduction strategies adopted by some 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific, with particular emphasis on their effectiveness in helping reach the Millennium Development Goals.

http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=831

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Economic Insecurity is a Global Crisis: ILO Report Shows How and Where Economic Security Index Linked to Happiness (pdf)

ILO, 2004. In all regions of the world, the seven forms of labour-related security have been affected by globalisation and the policies steering it. This analysis,drawing on a large amount of new data, identifies the main trends, provides indexes of national performance, looks at sources and forms of insecurities and considers policies that could improve economic security. This article provides some of the key findings of the report.

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/ses/index.htm

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Economic Survey of Europe (PDF)

UNECE, 2003. Since 1948 the Economic Survey of Europe provides regular, comprehensive analyses of economic developments and prospects in the entire ECE region. Since 1989 a major focus has been on the process of transition to market economies in central and eastern Europe and the CIS. Chapters of issue No. 2 of the 2003 Survey are available in PDF format. The Survey is also being printed and will soon be available as a United Nations publication (Sales No. E.03.II.E.27).

http://www.unece.org/ead/survey.htm

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Economic Vitality in a Transition to Sustainability

This booklet by Neva Goodwin surveys how economies will need to change, both to minimize the extent of expected climate change, and to respond to climate-related events that cannot, or will not, be prevented. This booklet is part of Growing the Economy through Global Warming Solutions, a series of papers published by the Civil Society Institute to explore the implications of the transition from a fossil-energy dependent economy to a climate-stable global economic system (Neva Goodwin, February 2008).

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/te/GEGWS-GoodwinChapter.pdf

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Exporting Corruption: How Rich Country Export Credit Agencies Facilitate Corruption in the Global South

An interview with The Corner House. The Corner House has been a leader in documenting how rich country institutions, especially export credit agencies (ECAs), promote or contribute to corruption in developing countries, and in documenting the effects. (Multinational Monitor, May/June 2006)

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2006/052006/interview-cornerhouse.html

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Foreign Direct Investment, development and gender equity: a review of research and policy

This paper provides a summary of the empirical and policy-related literature on the multifaceted relationships between gender inequalities and foreign direct investment (FDI). It reviews the research on the impact of FDI on investment, productivity, trade, employment, wages and working conditions. (E Braunstein, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2006)

http://www.corporate-accountability.org/eng/documents/2006/fdi_and_gender_unrisd.pdf

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Gender in Economics Indepth Report

Notwithstanding the fact that economic, trade and labour policies have differentiated impacts on men and women, the concept of gender has been systematically ignored by the analysis and formulation of these policies (Chioke, 2008).

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/5952.html

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GLOBAL: Tool for deciding on food vs fuel

As more countries weigh the pros and cons of biofuel production, a new decision-support tool has been developed to ensure they do not compromise their food production and security. The Bioenergy and Food Security Modelling Analytical Framework (AF) is designed to identify whether the potential to develop a bioenergy industry exists in a particular country, and provide policy support(IRIN, 25 February 2008).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Tool%20for%20deciding%20on%20food%20vs%20fuel.doc

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Growth with Responsibility in a Globalized World - Findings of the Shadow G-8

On June 6-8, 2007, heads of governments and states will meet in Heiligendamm, Germany, for the next G-8 summit, arguably the most infl uential and prestigious forum for world leaders to shape the global policy agenda. As the previous thirty-two summits did, the gathering of the G-8 in Heiligendamm is likely to provoke intense debate not only on the summit's results and gaps but also on the scope and limits of the G-8 as a political forum itself. With this publication, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and Erlassjahr contribute to this discussion. It is based on a joint project called the "Shadow G-8," a meeting of a diverse group of concerned citizens from around the world, including former government offi cials, G-8 alumni, and leading economists, which was initiated and chaired by Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz.(Joseph Stiglitz and Stephanie Griffith-Jones, Dialogue on Globalisation, May 2007).

http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/global/04472.pdf

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