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322/YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!

DNCTAD, xxvii, 15, 173, 291; and
MNC investment, 44-5; wealth
tax proposed, 246
UNDP, xxviii, 95, 119; household
debt, xvlll-xlx; Human Poverty
Index, 22-3; report on declining
living conditions, 20-2
unemployment, xix, 4, 57; denial of
involuntary, 183-4; long-term,
147; need to abolish, 239, 255;
inOECD, 15-16; Southeast Asia,
221; Third World, 5-6, 16-17
United Kingdom, 77, 113;
colonialism, 118-19
United States, 14, 22, 41, 186;
arms sales, 108-11, 234; and
Bretton Woods, 113; corporate
takeovers, 32; household
incomes, xviii, 19-20, 20; inter-
Triad investment, 38-9, 39; and
Japan, 232-3; and Latin
American debt crises, 74, 77,
78-9; Latin American
dependence on, 192-3, 206-8;
public debt, 65, 91; tied bilateral
aid, 108-11; unemployment,
15, 16; view of Southeast Asian
crisis, 234-5

Venezuela, 73, 137, 152
Vietnam, 231
violence, against women, 24, 26

wages: de-indexed, 143-4;
declining, 19-20; Mexico,
208-9; minimum, 147; and
profits, 29-30; women's, 24-5
Wapenhans report, 131-2
water supplies, 21, 23, 239
wealth: concentration of, xxi-xxii;
and corruption, 85-7; expropria­
tion of dictators', 244-5; forms
of transfer, 93-106; register of,
245-6; transferred to North, 8,

93-106; unequal distribution,

17-20, see also capital

welfare state, 291

women: liberation of, 240-1; in

poverty, 23-4; in Rwanda, 217;

violence against, 24, 26;

workforce participation, 24-5

working time, reduction of,

239-40,255

World Bank, 9, 113-14, 291-2;

and communist threat, 124-6;

and debt cancellation, 242; debt

relief plan, 12; and development,

115-16, 123-4; forecasting

errors, 129-30, 191; and green

revolution, 116-19; increased

loans, 82, 132; and Marshall

Plan, 115; opposition to social

welfare, 187-8; organisation,

114-15, 138-9; political

influence of, 119-20, 121-2;

potential for reform, 242;

promotion of good governance,

148-50; Public Expenditure

Review, 141; relationship with

IMF, 134-5, 138-9; return on

funding, 130-2; and role of

state, 161-5; and Southeast

Asian crisis, 132-3; and Third

World debt crisis, 127-33; under

McNamara, 121-6; Wapenhans

report, 131-2

World Trade Organisation (WTO),

xii, 44, 251,292-3

YPF oil company, 200-1, 204

Zambia, 156

Zapatistas, Mexico, 210-12, 256,

259

Index compiled by

Auriol Griffith-Jones