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36781 on labor standards -- rank: 1000

[excerpt from] FOCUS ON TRADE Number 48, April 2000 Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues. Your contributions and comments are welcome. Please contact us c/o CUSRI, Wisit Prachuabmoh Building, Chulalongkorn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:58:19 PDT 2000

36782 Any comments? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But how does removing the IMF from the equation improve the >situation of Mexico in January 1995 or South Korea in November 1997? >And don't tell me that in the absence of the IMF countries will not >find themselves hitting the wall because of unsustainable policies >or subject to sudden large-scale capital flight. You aren't >Charlie... No, I'm not, nor do I play him on TV. I'm thinking the absence of the IMF would allow "developing" countries mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:36:09 PDT 2000

36783 Fidel hosts G77, foments rebellion of Seattle -- rank: 1000

Reuters - Monday April 10, 7:47 pm Eastern Time UPDATE 2-Cuba enrolls Third World in "rebellion of Seattle" (Adds G77 call for more aid, grafs 11-13) By Jason Webb HAVANA, April 10 (Reuters) - Third World leaders at a summit in Havana will continue the ``rebellion of Seattle'' against rich countries' attempts to hijack the World Trade Organization for their own interests, host nation Cuba said on Monday. About 60 leaders from the 133 member nations of the Group of 77 -- so-called becau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:30:19 PDT 2000

36784 nation state obsolete? (LMD) -- rank: 1000

[Angela asked if I could retrieve this. I did, and I thought I'd share it with the masses.] April 2000 Le Monde Diplomatique - April 2000 HAS GLOBALISATION REALLY MADE NATIONS REDUNDANT? The states we are still in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Gerhard Schröder to Massimo D'Alema, via Tony Blair and the apostles of the Third Way, Europe's politicians go on and on about less government and the weak state. In the same vein, many scholars argue tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:21:01 PDT 2000

36785 Mowing Embassies (was sowing dragons) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Sort of. The NYT story says it was deliberate, but blames the decision on a >mid-level flunky who allegedly used outdated maps. Did the Euro stories say >the real decision was made knowingly at the top? --jks This is from the Observer, October 17, 1999. - Doug At 12:47 PM +0100 10/17/99, Jim heartfield wrote: > >Nato bombed Chinese deliberately > >Nato hit embassy on purpose >Kosovo: special report > >John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe in Copenh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:12:21 PDT 2000

36786 campus update -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] PURDUE: Five Purdue University students ended their hunger strike Friday after the school agreed to try harder to make sure university apparel is not made in sweatshops. The students, who began their strike March 27, came to terms with school officials, though the agreement does not meet the protesters' main demand. Students had wanted the university to join the Worker Rights Consortium, a group to monitors clothing manufacturers. Instead, the agreement list ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:07:34 PDT 2000

36787 Money creation -- rank: 1000

D.L wrote: >It does every day, though, doesn't it? How much of a currency >devaluation has to occur before the U.S. can't service its debt? When will >the US government start being unable to write the checks? It's not the government that has a problem: the foreign capital inflow has effectively been financing a marginal propensity to consume of over 100% throughout this expansion, and, more recently, (corporate investment + stock retirements) > cashflow. While a reversal of the inf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 05:11:02 PDT 2000

36788 Fwd: Bolivia -- rank: 1000

[Tom Kruse reports from Bolivia...] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:38:27 -0400 To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> Thanks. Doing fine, though I'm not sleeping at home. Democracy, you know. Warning: ignore AP reports! I will send correctives in the upcoming days. We're trying to get comment and support in an effort to win local leaders margins of security. They are being hunted; 5 have already been sent into interal exile in the eastern ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 04:49:35 PDT 2000

36789 Any comments? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >he IMF had nothing to do with the origins of the Mexican or East Asian crises Didn't the pressure for capital account liberalization, and the general encouragement of portfolio flows, have something to do with them? Especially if you include the influence of the IMF's string-puller, the U.S. Treasury? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 11 04:20:08 PDT 2000

36790 What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis -- rank: 1000

Edward E Skiba wrote: >PS I tried to send this twice and both times get a message from some >minesweeper program on the Fleming network that this contains inappropriate >language. I am a long-time lurker on this list and have not posted since >the last ice age so I am rusty on the mechanics but I do recall something >about taboo words so I am going to put in some ** and see if that works. The only taboo words were variants of "s*bscribe" and "uns*bscribe," bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 10 22:47:40 PDT 2000

36791 WTO update -- rank: 1000

Another detail from the Gallup/CNN poll on China's WTO entry. "Repub+lean" means Republican plus independents who lean towards Republican. favor oppose DK/NA Republican 44 45 11 Repub+lean 43 47 10 Democrat 53 33 14 Dem+lean 56 31 13 independent 48 36 16 This is all very complicated. On this question, the younger, the whiter, the richer, and the more Democratic favor China's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 10 14:17:48 PDT 2000

36792 Mowing Embassies (was sowing dragons) -- rank: 1000

I see the NYT story still refuses to acknowledge European press reports that the bombing of the Chinese embassy was deliberate. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 10 14:05:03 PDT 2000

36793 GDP/capita -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Doug, didn't you post a list of GDP/capita about 6 months ago that had the >US in fourth place behind Japan, Germany and France? And not by a little. >Is there more than one way of computing this? Here are the GNP per capita sorts for 1997, from the World Bank's World Development Indicators 1999 CD-ROM. The first set is by current U.S. dollars, based on 3-year averages of market exchange rates; the second, by purchasing power parity, which uses exchange rates des ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 10 13:25:10 PDT 2000

36794 IMF -- rank: 1000

Someone wrote me offlist: >Couldn't resist on this one. I take your point vis a vis Brad. But, given >that these institutions are simply US tools, what difference would it make >if they did not exist. Eg. In Asian crisis, US simply wrote the "IMF >program". In Mexico, no different, In Latin American debt crisis, the >same. But the IMF gives the U.S. the political cover of multilateralism - and it helps keep the EU and Japan on board. Sort of like NATO's role in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 10 12:45:40 PDT 2000

36795 Council of Canadians -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >If the Gov prints some money and buys your stock or, >if you like, your electric generator plant ...it's a change of ownership without any expansion of capacity. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 10 12:43:41 PDT 2000