> I've been looking over the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
> annual report: "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2001:
> Making new technologies work for human development", published today
on the
> UNDP website:
> http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/
>
> It is a paean of praise to the globalising neoliberal model of
development
> and strongly argues for the TRIPS intellectual property rights
regime, for
> corporate rights generally, and for the benefits of new technologies
in
> pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering in agriculture and other
contentious
> areas. The HDI indices are surely worth deconstructing.
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Call Arturo Escobar..........
Ian
