Your Money or Your Life!

274/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! SAPs aim to open up the PNG economy to exploitation at the hands of multinational corporations. 199 ...

CHRONOLOGY/275 1997 Uganda. The first country to be targeted by the HIPC initiative, Uganda's debt reduction is postponed to Apr ...

276/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! 1998 G7. The stock markets of the main industrialised countries enter a period of tremendous instab ...

Glossary AUTHOR'S NOTE In this book the following terms are used interchangeably: Third World, (the countries of) the South, the ...

278/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! DEBT Multilateral Debt Debts due to the World Bank, the IMF, the regional development banks such as ...

GLOSSARY/279 between the two, for reasons of accountancy, jurisdiction or statistics, a foreign investment is considered to be a ...

280/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! interest rates in the US, partly from the central banks of the rest of the world holding their exch ...

GLOSSARY/281 1962, which has been constantly renewed ever since. Switzerland became an associate member in 19 76 and is now a fu ...

282/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! by the large transnational Industrial groups. Today this is clearly no longer sufficient. The 'glob ...

GLOSSARY/283 GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) The GDP represents the total wealth produced In a given territory, calculated as the s ...

284/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! IMF: distribution of administrators' votes (24) US 17.82% Germany 5.55% Japan 5.55% United Kingdom ...

GLOSSARY/285 LIBOR (LONDON INTERBANK OFFERED RATE) The interbank interest rate of the London City (very close to the American 'p ...

286/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! to another expansive long cycle, and so on.... The long waves are not just empirically demonstrable ...

GLOSSARY/287 and in Asia and the Pacific: Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Since 1994, three Third World countries have entered ...

288/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! crisis. From its beginnings, there has traditionally been a French president: Christian Noyes, Jean ...

GLOSSARY/289 the qualitative spread of the risk, since each component of risk carried by any particular security may lead to the ...

290/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! tion of the workforce is assured and its maintenance costs covered. It is therefore nothing else th ...

GLOSSARY/291 so-called socialist countries - is to reach for the status of associate, or even peripheral, member, of one of thes ...

292/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! specialises in very long-term loans (15-20 years) at nil or very low interest rates to the least d ...

GLOSSARY/293 is the liberalisation of investments. The projected instrument to achieve this is the Multilateral Agreement on Inv ...