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Overview
- Genre
- Contemporary Issues, Investigation, Politics, Foreign Worlds, and Reality
- Synopsis
Do the World Bank and IMF make the poor even poorer? Why demonstrate against the Bank and IMF?
"Clear and comprehensive... admired the way in which you were able to bring an in-depth exploration of these complex issues to life."—UN Development Program
A global investigation of major criticisms of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), two of the most powerful financial institutions in the world. Each case study concentrates on a different aspect of critics' charges:
Bolivia: Debt, Drugs and Democracy
Ghana: The Model of Success
Brazil: Debt, Damage and Politics
Thailand: Dams and Dislocation
Philippines: The Debt FightersThe charges are controversial and provocative. Some go to the heart of the power and policies of these institutions. They are made by economists, journalists, sociologists; church, labor, environmental, government and community leaders; and ordinary people from countries perceive as World Bank/IMF policies and practices.
- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 85 minutes
Credits
- Robert Richter ... Producer, Director, Writer, Reporter
- Burleigh Wartes ... Cinematographer
- Peter Kinoy ... Editor
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Richter Productions
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1986-99
- Locations
- Bolivia, Ghana, Philippines, Brazil, Thailand, Washington DC
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 1987
- Festivals
- Parma (Italy) International
- Awards
- National Emmy Finalist, Prix Leonardo
- Distribution
- PBS: Refused to run it as "Perception of bias in favor of the poor" Aired throughout Europe, etc/
- Language
- English, Portugese, Thai, Spanish, Tagalog
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles
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