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| A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand | 
 enlarge | Authors: Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham, Kheng Poh Li
Publisher: Food First
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1466083
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 267
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0935028749
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9593
EAN: 9780935028744
ASIN: 0935028749
Publication Date: March 1999
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Product Description
As we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger. At the same time, working people in the North find their living standards declining. Dark Victory reveals the roots of these global trends in a sweeping strategy of global economic rollback unleashed by the US to shore up the North's domination of the international economy and reassert corporate control. Bello argues that lower barriers to imports, removal of restrictions on foreign investments, privatization of state-owned activities, reduction in social welfare spending, and wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies--all conditions of structural adjustment loans from the North-have had disastrous consequences. Hailed as a classic study of global poverty, Dark Victory is now reissued with a new epilogue by the authors.
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Nice Example for New Economy Tragedy June 20, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have studied about free trade and free flow of money. Theory said it would create more benefits to consumers and countries. But what would happen if it is used in a wrong way. People say Thailand has everything US or Japan has, but she still doesn't develop. This book will provide you a nice example about the starting of crisis in Thailand which expanded to other countries in South East Asia. Explain to you step by step and also show many ideas and opinions about the crisis. Nice Work
Nice Example for New Economy Tragedy June 19, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We have studied about free trade and free flow of money. Theory said it would create more benefits to consumers and countries. But what would happen if it is used in a wrong way. People say Thailand has everything US or Japan has, but she still doesn't develop. This book will provide you a nice example about the starting of crisis in Thailand which expanded to other countries in South East Asia. Explain to you step by step and also show many ideas and opinions about the crisis. Nice Work
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