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Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the Wto on Third World Countries

Author: Sarah Anderson

Ever since the `Battle in Seattle,` the World Trade Organization has been featured prominently in the news. For all their talk of being dedicated to the welfare of the Third World, the WTO has damaged the economies of several countries and encouraged the growth of labor markets that more closely resemble sweat shops. Third World activists/scholars Martin Knor, Walden Bello, Vandana Shiva, Dot Keet, Sara Larrain, and Oronto Douglas examine the effects of the WTO and provide alternative agendas geared towards people, not profits.

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This book is comprised primarily of four long essays: Martin Khor's "How the South is Getting a Raw Deal at the WTO"; Walden Bello's "Building an Iron Cage: Bretton Woods Institutions, the WTO, and the South"; Vandana Shiva's "War Against Nature and the People of the South"; and Dot Keet's "Implications for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries." Opening the volume is Jerry Mander's foreword and closing the volume are two close-ups of Nigeria and Chile, and an afterword by Anuradha Mittal. All the contributors are part of different environmental and human rights organizations in Nigeria, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Nigeria, India, the US, and Chile, and all weighing in<-->at least when lives and living are at stake<-->against those Northern policies of "free" trade and globalization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword: The Resistance to Southern Perspectives	1
	How the South is Getting a Raw Deal at the WTO	7
	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
	Building an Iron Cage: Bretton Woods Institutions, the WTO, and the South	54
	The 1950s through the 1970s: Emergence of the Southern Agenda
	The 1980s and Early 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	91
	Globalization of India's Agriculture
	The Driving Forces behind Globalization of Agriculture
	Implications for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries	126
	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	155
	The Case of Chile: Dictatorship and Neoliberalism
	The Case of Nigeria: Corporate Oil and Tribal Blood
	Afterword	164

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