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"In the past twenty years, economic policy in Latin America has veered toward neoliberalism, or market friendliness. State interventions in the economy have been cut back in many areas, including reductions in fiscal deficits, privatization of public enterprises, reductions of import quotas and tariffs and export subsidies, removal of barriers to foreign capital flow, and increased faith in the private sector and market processes." "This book offers...
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This program continues the investigation into the greed and recklessness that drove the world to the brink of financial ruin. Follow the extraordinary bailout engineered by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, himself a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Go behind the scenes to see desperate world leaders at each other's throats. Watch as you see the effects of the economic turn-down that range from unemployment, foreclosure and homelessness, protesting,...
6) IMF essays from a time of crisis: the international financial system, stabilization, and development
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This lucid, plain, straightforward book is not necessarily the sort of thing one expects from an economist, yet author Stanley Fischer is one of our era's greatest economists. His work at the International Monetary Fund put him on the front lines during some of the twentieth century's most serious economic crises and panics. He has a unique and valuable perspective. His timely discussion of the IMF and the World Bank provides a sobering antidote to...
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"Modern War in an Ancient Land: The United States Army in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, 2001-2014 examines the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in October 2001 and the thirteen-plus years of conflict that followed. Whether sent to Afghanistan to counter terrorists, defeat an insurgency, develop institutions, or support a democracy, Army commanders operated under the assumption that by securing Afghans and their fledgling national government, the U.S....
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"An urgent investigation into warfare in the age of biometrics, and the dangerous implications of new technologies that would allow the government to identify anyone, anywhere, at any time"--
It might sound familiar at first: a platoon of mostly 19-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported...
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"Athens, Greece May Day 2010. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) were putting together the final details of a 100-billion Euro rescue package for the country. The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou had agreed to a savage package of austerity measures involving cuts in public spending and lower salaries and pensions. Outside, riot police were deployed, as protesters gathered to fight the austerity program. A country...
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"This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations, using a comparative case study methodology.Complex operations are collaborative and coordinated military and civilian agency activities executed to restore stability to fragile states, and to aid the transition to democratic governance operating under the rule of law. All actors engaged in complex stability...
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Research monograph comprising an analysis of proposed allocations in the 1976 national budget of the USA - examines the choices and alternatives in government policy decision making, and covers defence, health, education, community development, public works, stabilization, nuclear weapons, energy, and other programmes. References and statistical tables.
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