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...grow 4.7% this year. That's 40% faster than the 3.4% average gains in the pre-oil-shock years of 1979 and 1990. Strong growth provides an important cushion to ward off unexpected blows. At the same time, the so-called stewards of globalization - namely, the G-7, the imf and the world's major central banks - are now focused on implementing policies that would temper worrisome global imbalances. But we can no longer count on an abundance of cheap money sloshing around the world to act as a bulwark against calamity and push asset prices higher. Financial market conditions...
...that majority has always been excluded. So we needed to end that internal colonialism and return the land and its natural resources to those who have lived on it for so many hundreds of years, instead of putting our economy in the hands of the World Bank, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and transnational corporations. We, of course, want [private] investment partners, and we want them to profit, but we should be the absolute owners of the land and resources...
...chapter in a history scarred by political violence and social and economic instability. "The solution to our country's problems is in our hands," Préval told thousands of supporters. "The solution begins with dialogue. No one else can do it for us, not the IMF, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the European Union, Bilateral Cooperation or the United Nations. We thank them for their support. Please, help me, help the country, help yourselves...
...simply based on the outlook of each leader: The 400% increase in world oil prices since Yeltsin left office has made a world of difference to the possibilities open to Russia's foreign policy. Yeltsin presided over a once great power reduced to penury and dependent on IMF handouts; Putin is running a booming oil state, which earned around $113 billion from oil exports last year (and a further $30 billion from natural gas exports). Which is why rising global demand for oil created by economic growth may be bad news for Russian democracy activists, Western-inclined politicians in former...
...Information for my thesis research on the country’s new cultural policy, which bans Western content and heavily funds local propaganda. For three hours, I listened as the minister explained that Zimbabwe is a nation at war against British and American neo-colonialism—the IMF, the World Bank, white farmers, and internal spies and saboteurs. When I asked the minister if his anti-colonial rhetoric masked the fact that he occupied the seat of his old exploiter, his tone changed and so did the topic of conversation: “So, why exactly are you interested...