The Debt Threat: How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World...and Threatening U

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		The Debt Threat: How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World...and Threatening U
		The Debt Threat: How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World...and Threatening U

基本信息·出版社：HarperCollins Publishers
·页码：272 页
·出版日期：2006年01月
·ISBN：0060560568
·条形码：9780060560560
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：债务威胁

内容简介

Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, looks at the history of third-world debt and its crippling effects on people in developing countries.

Drawing from her impressive debt-relief campaign, fact-finding travels, and meetings with top-ranking officials, Hertz offers a probing analysis of the origins of this rampant burden and its evolution through the decades. With clear principles of justice, she uncovers the imbalance of power and misuse of corrupt dictators and reckless lenders.

作者简介

Noreena Hertz is the Associate Director for the Centre for International Business at the University of Cambridge. Recognized as one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, her work has been published in the Washington Post, the New Statesman, The Observer, and the Guardian.

编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
The debt of poor countries causes terrorism, argues economist Hertz in this follow-up to The Silent Takeover. The first nine chapters give considerable anecdotal evidence of poverty, injustice and disease but fail to link them to indebtedness. Assuming that money borrowed by poor governments is stolen by elites, and that repayment comes from cutting social services to the poor, Hertz compares health-care budgets of countries to their debt service payments. The chapters fail to distinguish among types of debt: direct and indirect, internal and external, infrastructure and export financing, for example. Horror stories from the 1940s to the 1990s are mixed indiscriminately. Chapter 10 is the first mention of the terrorism link; the argument turns out to be little more than that misery causes terrorism. The following chapter is the first part that draws on Hertz's full strengths as an economist, where debt "is very complex stuff, conceptually and politically, and it takes us into difficult, alien terrain." She navigates this terrain with precision and clarity, presenting inspiring visions for change. Her blueprint for development has little to do with debt, and nothing to do with terrorism, but it's the reason to buy this book.
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Review
"(An important) engaging new book." -- Time magazine

"A call for a more humane, civilised and honest approach to globalisation." -- Big Issue

"A thundering polemic...introduces new urgency into the argument for debt-forgiveness." -- The Observer

"A trenchant study...a problem that is perceived as vast and intractable is broken down into practical, actionable units." -- London Times

"Fast becoming the central text of the antiglobalization movement." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Noreena Hertz is one of the world’s leading young thinkers." -- Observer

"Simple, straight forward and imperative." -- The Sunday Herald

"The Silent Takeover raises issues that business and politicans would be unwise to ignore." -- Financial Times

"[Hertz] navigates this terrain with precision and clarity...her blueprint for development (is) the reason to buy this book." -- Publishers Weekly

"[Hertz’s] eloquent call to action deserves the attention of every concerned citizen of our troubled world." -- Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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