Dying for Growth

by Kim, Jim Yong

• ISBN13: 9781567511611
• ISBN10: 1567511619
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Common Courage Pr

Summary

Is economic "growth" killing the poor? The Institute for Health and Social Justice brings us the answers in Dying for Growth. An extraordinary collection of fourteen hard-hitting case studies from Haiti to the US, Dying for Growth exposes the interests behind a system that consigns a fifth of the world's population to live (and die) on less than a dollar a day. Rooted in the lives of people waging heart-wrenching struggles against a new, systemic form of poverty, these studies don't just document inequality -- they pinpoint its underlying causes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Selected Abbreviations
Introduction to the Problem
Introduction: What is Growing? Who is Dying?	p. 3
Getting a Grip on the Global Economy	p. 11
Terms Reconsidered: Decoding Development Discourse	p. 44
Growth Strategies, State Restructuring, and the Health of the Poor
Hypocrisies of Development and the Health of the Haitian Poor	p. 65
Theoretical Therapies, Remote Remedies: SAPs and the Political Ecology of Poverty and Health in Africa	p. 91
Sickness Amidst Recovery: Public Debt and Private Suffering in Peru	p. 127
Neoliberal Economic Policy, "State Desertion," and the Russian Health Crisis	p. 155
Powerful Players, Harmful Consequences: Transnational Corporations, Inequality, and Health
Dying for Growth, Part I: Transnational Corporations and the Health of the Poor	p. 177
Dying for Growth, Part II: The Political Influence of National and Transnational Corporations	p. 225
Tragedy Without End: The 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster	p. 245
Neoliberal Trade and Investment and the Health of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S.-Mexico Border	p. 261
Illicit Growth: U.S. Drug Policy and Global Inequality
The Drug War in Perspective	p. 293
Alternatives to the Agenda
"The Threat of a Good Example": Health and Revolution in Cuba	p. 331
The Smoke and Mirrors of Health Reform in El Salvador: Community Health NGOs and the Not-So-Neoliberal State	p. 359
Conclusion: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will	p. 382
Pragmatic Solidarity	p. 391
Endnotes	p. 427
Bibliography	p. 511
Index	p. 567
About the Editors	p. 585
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