Communist Web Wednesday 2nd February 2000 9.30pm gmt Falling Production and Rising Unemployment . This is the cost of neo-liberal policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, affirms Argentine economist Jaime Fuchs THE second international conference on globalization has taken place after 1999 closed under a cloud of widespread anxiety caused by a drop in national revenues in the majority of Latin American countries, a crisis which has impacted on every aspect of social life in terms of growing poverty, unemployment and generally falling production levels. With this affirmation, Jaime J. Fuchs, a doctor of Economic Science from Argentina, summed up the core elements of the paper he gave at the Havana economists' conference attended by delegates from several continents. The main theme of the conference was globalization... http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/cw.html
