TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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surethird world governments are notorious for running off with World Bank and IMF money,leaving their people to rot. Latin America seems to have woken up, but of course will soon be labelled as rebels simply becasue they don't want to play by the WTO's global rules.
I agree with most of what you say. But isn't "free trade" part of the same problem that keeps the third world reliant on external sources of finance? the problem with free trade is, like you say, that countries end up not being sustainable (Western dumping pricing out small farmers being one example).
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NoFree trade is the only thing that will solve the problem. Without it, they haven't got a hope.
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