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Overview
In an unsettling but lucid critique, The Debt Boomerang shows that we in the North must also pay the price of World Bank and IMF policies that have accelerated deforestation, encouraged mass migrations, fuelled an expanding drug trade and heightened global instability and conflict.
Editorials
New Scientist
Susan George's book explores the hidden link between Third World peasants and First World taxpayers.Booknews
A report by the "scholar-activists" at the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, arguing that taxpayers in industrial countries are paying heavily for debt in the third world through environmental degradation, cocaine imports, government subsidies to banks, lost jobs, and other factors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
November 30, 1991
Publisher
London : Pluto Press with the Transnational Institute (TNI), 1992.
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780745305943