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the idea of the global city

[...] The East Asian miracle, for Rajaratnam, was located in the city.
This was not the industrial town of the nineteenth century. These cities
represented the new mobile epoch of IMF-driven globalization. The idea
of the global city ignored production, emphasized consumption, and
made money th…

—p.247 The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World Singapore (245) by Vijay Prashad
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the rise in petrodollars

[...] During the first six months of 1974, when the fiscal effects of the oil crisis became clear, the G-7 enjoyed a $6 billion surplus with the nonpetroleum exporting Third World states, but it suffered a $4 1 billion deficit with the oil exporting states. A year later, the nonpetroleum states owe…

—p.231 Kingston (224) by Vijay Prashad
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the effects of the oil crisis in the Third World

[...] World inflation, high oil prices, and a drop in commodity prices effected the reserves, as it did those of most of the darker nations. In 1960, the total debt of the 133 states that the world Bank counted as part of the "developing countries" held a total public and private debt just short of…

—p.229 Kingston (224) by Vijay Prashad
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break Jamaica out of its impoverished chrysalis

By the early 1 970s, the government reactivated its efforts to break Jamaica out of its impoverished chrysalis at the nether end of global capitalism. Manley' s son Michael ran a ferocious and successful political campaign against the global economic system that stacked the decks against countries …

—p.226 Kingston (224) by Vijay Prashad
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the Jamaican people did not benefit

[...] Drawing from the work of w. Arthur Lewis, a com­rade and friend of Prebisch, the Jamaican government pursued the policy of "industrialization by invitation." A system of leases permitted the government to channel industrial investment into those areas of the economy that allowed for social de…

—p.225 Kingston (224) by Vijay Prashad