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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a term for the loans provided by the IMF and the World Bank to countries that experienced economic crises, which come with strings attached: privatisation and deregulation, mainly (the conditions are also known as the Washington Consensus)


The result of such 'structural adjustments' was the integration of local agriculture into the global economy: while crops were exported, farmers thrown off their land were pushed into slums, available as a workforce for outsourced sweatshops.

—p.44 The Political Economy of Refugees (43) by Slavoj Žižek
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