>--- Original Message --- >From: "Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 1/7/02 3:12:31 PM > FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS >http://www.fpif.org/ > >Whats in the News at FPIF? >January 7, 2002 > >· Economic Debacle In Argentina: The IMF Strikes Again >By Arthur MacEwan > >In the midst of their fourth year of recession, with the official
>unemployment rate approaching 20%, and with increasing cutbacks of social >programs, Argentinians took to the streets in the days before Christmas. >Sparked by the government's latest economic policies, which restricted the > >amount of money people could withdraw from their bank accounts, political >demonstrations and the looting of grocery stores spread across the country. > >(Arthur MacEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is professor of Economics and >interim provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University > >of Massachusetts in Boston. His most recent book is Neoliberalism or >Democracy? Economic Strategy, Markets, and Alternatives for the 21st > Century.) > >See this new Global Affairs Commentary at: >http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0201argentina.html > > > >
