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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Does public service liberalization pose a threat to gender and human rights? Traditionally considered essential services provided by a state to its citizens, public services are often viewed as public goods which embody social values. Subjecting them to market ideology thus raises concerns that the intrinsic social nature of these services will be negated. Moreover, as those most likely to be reliant on public services, public service liberalization...
Series
NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics volume 14
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
331) Life and debt
Publisher
Distributed by New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Seven billion in debt (circa 2000), Jamaica has seen its agricultural industries laid to waste by the impossibility of competing with subsidized, multi-national American based companies. The poverty of 'average' Jamaican in a shantytown near Kingston is in stark contrast...