"First published ... by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 2002. Published with a new afterword in Penguin Books 2002"-- t.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The promise of global institutions -- Broken promises -- Freedom to choose? -- The East Asian crisis : how IMF policies brought the world to the verge of a global meltdown -- Who lost Russia? -- Unfair trade laws and other mischief -- Better roads to the market -- The IMF's other agenda -- The way ahead.
Summary
A controversial and authoritative account of the world's financial institutions during the 1990s. It contains a condemnation of their policies and methods of directing the economies of developing nations by a Nobel prize winner and former chief economist at the World Bank.
