On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:39:07 -0000 "JOHNSON, Richard" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Surely the point is that development is difficult to bring about
as long as a free market principles are continually implemented even when they
have been shown to fail so dismally,
> and so
> measures and initiatives that fail to achieve their targets are subsequently
> branded as easy and empty rhetorical gestures by cynical or disillusioned
> practitioners and academics.
who realise that those in power have no interest in seeing things change on
anything other than a superficial level.
>
> > ----------
> > From: Alan Patterson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Reply To: Alan Patterson
> > Sent: 12 December 2000 16:34
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: White Paper on Globalisation
> >
> > Adam Tickell wrote:
> > >
> > > The point being that the UK government is committed to development
> > > rather than easy and empty rhetorical gestures?
> >
> >
> > Er, Some mistake here surely? - The point being that the UK government
> > is committed to development AND easy and empty rhetorical gestures.
> >
> > --
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Patterson
> > Department of Geography & Earth Sciences
> > Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PH UK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:35:51 +0000 David McKnight
> > > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > What follows is a variation on the text from a comic strip on the
> > World Bank.
> > > > Below that is the press release from DFID about their White Paper
> > on Globalisation.
> > > >
> > > > ***************
> > > >
> > > > Clare Short is reading out a statement about a new government
> > report:
> > > >
> > > > "20 years ago governments and bureaucrats met and commited
> > ourselves to eradicating world poverty and hunger.
> > > > Since that time we have vigourously promoted our policies of free
> > trade, export-led growth, inward investment, trickle down economics and
> > structural adjustment.
> > > > However... in the meantime the gap between the rich and the poor
> > has done nothing but widen.
> > > > And so, 20 years hence, what is now needed is obvious...
> > > > Another 20years of the same."
> > > >
> > > > "..And so the document now reads: 'This government fully and
> > totally commits itself to the complete eradication of world poverty...as
> > long as this does not involve (a) actually changing anything, or (b)
> > preventing the rich world dominating the global economy'."
> > > >
> >
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