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Views from the South : the effects of globalization and the WTO on Third World countries / edited by Sarah Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Mander ; afterword by Anuradha Mittal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oakland, Calif. : Food First Books, c2000.Description: v, 194 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 093502882X
  • 9780935028829
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9172/4 21
LOC classification:
  • HF 1413 V671 2000
Contents:
Foreword : The resistance to southern perspectives / Jerry Mander -- How the South is getting a raw deal at the WTO / Martin Khor : The WTO as an instrument to govern the South -- Difficulties for developing countries generated by the WTO agreements and their problems of implementation -- The need to review and repair the WTO agreements -- Pressure for new issues -- The dangers of four new issues -- Other issues at the door : environment and labor -- Conclusion -- Building an iron cage : Bretton Woods institutions, the WTO, and the South / Walden Bello : The 1950s through the 1970s : emergence of the Southern agenda -- The 1980s and the 1990s : resubordination of the South -- The World Trade Organization : sealing the defeat of the South -- Strategy for change -- War against nature and the people of the South / Vandana Shiva : Globalization of India's agriculture -- The driving forces behind globalization of agriculture -- Conclusion -- Implications for developing countries and least developed countries / Dot Keet : Dashed expectations in developing countries -- Abuses of the multilateral rules-based system by developed countries -- Marginalization for least developed countries -- Future implications for developing countries -- New pressures from developed countries -- Millennial challenges -- Further and more fundamental aims -- Two cases of corporate rule : The case of Chile : dictatorship and neoliberalism / Sara Larrain -- The case of Nigeria : corporate oil and tribal blood / Oronto Douglas -- Afterword / Anuradha Mittal.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HF 1413 V671 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000044644

"In conjunction with International Forum on Globalization."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : The resistance to southern perspectives / Jerry Mander -- How the South is getting a raw deal at the WTO / Martin Khor : The WTO as an instrument to govern the South -- Difficulties for developing countries generated by the WTO agreements and their problems of implementation -- The need to review and repair the WTO agreements -- Pressure for new issues -- The dangers of four new issues -- Other issues at the door : environment and labor -- Conclusion -- Building an iron cage : Bretton Woods institutions, the WTO, and the South / Walden Bello : The 1950s through the 1970s : emergence of the Southern agenda -- The 1980s and the 1990s : resubordination of the South -- The World Trade Organization : sealing the defeat of the South -- Strategy for change -- War against nature and the people of the South / Vandana Shiva : Globalization of India's agriculture -- The driving forces behind globalization of agriculture -- Conclusion -- Implications for developing countries and least developed countries / Dot Keet : Dashed expectations in developing countries -- Abuses of the multilateral rules-based system by developed countries -- Marginalization for least developed countries -- Future implications for developing countries -- New pressures from developed countries -- Millennial challenges -- Further and more fundamental aims -- Two cases of corporate rule : The case of Chile : dictatorship and neoliberalism / Sara Larrain -- The case of Nigeria : corporate oil and tribal blood / Oronto Douglas -- Afterword / Anuradha Mittal.

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