> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) > It's hard to say for sure, but reading Summers' concluding section does make > it seem to me he _was_ being ironic and provocative, but in a most cynical > way. The memo slyly acknowledges the inherently evil logic of liberalization > but does so in order to ask, in effect, "how far can we go? how much can we > get away with?" ... Not the first. Here's another from 18th & H Sts: "We must ask ourselves: How much pressure can these nations be expected to bear? How far can the poorest peoples be pushed into further reducing their meagre standards of living? How resilient are the political systems and institutions in these countries in the face of steadily worsening conditions? I don't have the answers to these important questions." AW Clausen, World Bank President, in an address to his Board of Directors, 1983 Patrick Bond email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa work: University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 2711-488-5917 * fax: 2711-484-2729
