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'Bello et al build their case with relentless scholarship. Even those who think they know the structural adjustment scenario inside out will be grateful to Bello for taking on the toughest cases for examination' Susan George 'This is one publication that will most definitely not go down well among the top brass at the Bretton Woods Institutions' West Africa'A book that progressive political leaders the world over should read and take to heart' David C. Korten, Executive Director of People-Centered Development Forum, New York'As informative and challenging as tomes three times its length' Arthur Shostak, Labor Studies Journal 'Can be read as a primer on how largely Western capitalist countries have wrecked the developing nations.' New Worker

'A book that progressive political leaders the world over should read and take to heart' -- David C. Korten 'Bello et al build their case with relentless scholarship. Even those who think they know the structural adjustment scenario inside out will be grateful to Bello for taking on the toughest cases for examination' -- Susan George

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Walden Bello is currently professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines and co-director of Focus on the Global South, a program of research, analysis, and advocacy based at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand. He also served as executive director of the the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland, California from 1990-94. He is the author of a number of other books including A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand (1998), co-authored with Shea Cunningham and Likheng Po. Shea Cunningham has served as a research associate of both Food First and Focus on the Global South.

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