Alex Gladstein - Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Exploit Poor Countries
Join Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, to discuss his latest book "Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development."
The IMF and World Bank were created to help countries survive financial crises and to help them develop into prosperous economic actors.
But, their 75-year track record shows the opposite: their loans and structural adjustment policies have plunged poor countries into impossibly large debt traps and forced the Third World to focus on producing goods for consumption in the West instead of growing consumption and industry at home.
The Bank and the Fund’s “development and assistance” has been anything but. The reality is a history of neocolonial exploitation with shocking results.
📙 Hidden Repression – Bitcoin Magazine
📍 Ames Hall Room B101, 2100 Foxhall Rd NW
5:30-6:00 Bitcoin District meet & greet
6-6:30 Meet & Greet + book signing
6:30-7:30 Program
7:30-8:30 Social hour
🚗 Garage Parking Instructions
Turn onto Whitehaven Pkwy NW and in to the GWU campus entrance. Turn left into the garage underneath the tennis courts.
Weekday evenings after 5PM is $7.
Ames Hall is across the street from the garage.
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This event will be kindly hosted by the George Washington University.