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Washington Consensus

Marketize, privatize, deregulate: the Washington Consensus mantra dominated policy in the developing world for a quarter century. For most the recipe was a disaster.

—p.81 Development From Below (81) by Vivek Chibber
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plutocracy

Similar mechanisms prevail at the un, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank. Nationally, we aspire to live in democracies. Internationally, we inhabit a plutocracy.

referring to voting power in the IMF being based on economy size not pop size

—p.79 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin
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what have we been doing to them? inspo/anti-capitalism

If community programs have consistently floundered, both in the past and today, what’s left? A return to the rule of experts? Bigger dams and better seeds? If faced with two approaches — that of the development expert, asking “What can we do for the poor?” and that of the community developer, askin…

—p.78 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin
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bulwark

Community development, one of its officers giddily explained, could be a bulwark “against the leftist takeover of every hamlet in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.”

this is wild

—p.78 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin
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direct financial transfers, unmediated by government agencies

[...] Shoppers can donate their bag credits — the five-cent rebate they receive by forgoing plastic bags — to a microfinance fund.

Combining this with traditional donations, Whole Foods hopes to raise $5 million to fund 40,000 small loans to “impoverished entrepreneurs” around the globe. They sa…

—p.75 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin