Author: Amal Raj Chellakan
Publisher: ISPCK
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 459
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788172149654
Description
In this book the author discusses globalization as a highly ambivalent reality with its neo-liberal global capitalism whose free trade and free market, science, and technology are dominant in the world and shows that that strategies used by international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, whose missions are to assist underdeveloped countries, have been for a long time influenced by the forces that steer economic injustice in times of globalization.
It contests this quasi-natural international capital. In laying bare this interconnectedness, it delves into the root causes of the growing poverty among the lowest strata of Third World populations, particularly in India. And it is precisely this delving into root causes that holds out the prospect of finding strategies for change. He also examines human development in terms of empowerment, as proposed by the Indian-born economist Amartaya Sen who wagers on the furtherance of functionings and capabilities of persons as roads to freedom and development.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Abbreviations
CHAPTER ONE:
Globalization and its Effects on the Third World
Introduction
1. Defining globalization
2. Historical forms of globalization
3. The globalization thesis
4. International economy or globalised economy?
5. Globalization from Above: A negative force
6. Globalization and India
Conclusion
CHAPTER TWO:
The International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.), the World
Banks, their Structural adjustment programs, and
Their approach to Poverty
Introduction
1. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
2. The World Bank
3. Conditionality
4. The IMF and The World Bank at the age of Fifty
5. Attacking poverty
Conclusion
CHAPTER THREE:
Empowerment of the Poor
Introduction
1. World Development Report 2000/2001
2. Beyond globalization: New Directions
3. Development as Empowerment
Conclusion
CHAPTER FOUR:
Theology of Creation and Empowerment
Introduction
Understanding creation
Theology of solidarity
The Church: Sacrament of history
Globalization and Catholicity
Women and a theology of empowerment
Conclusion
GENERAL CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY