When being good makes us evil
While I was absentmindedly Flipping Through the notes for my upcoming lecture, the Tanzanian general and member of parliament came up to the rostrum. I have read your paper, and I only have one Question, he said earnestly. ‘Do they underdevelop us on purpose?’ countries
I was just about to present my views on globalization and free trade to members of the East African Parliament (the joint parliament of Kenya,Uganda and TanZania),who were representing countries where globalization had led to primitivization rather modernization
In many areas. The burly and humorous general had gained my respect as an efficient chairman of that morning’s session. the meeting took place in the big tent on the old coffee plantation made ‘uncompetitive’ by calling coffee prices, even with the minuscule wages paid. Most of the few industries in the region that had developed after independent had been killed off by consistent ‘structural adjustment’ by the Washington institutions Unemployment and poverty surround