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The Poorer Nations : A Possible History of the Global South by Boutros-Ghali, Boutros;Prashad, Vijay is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In __The Darker Nations__, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. __With The Poorer Nations__, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the '70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to express themselves politically. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRIC countries, the Group of 12, the World Social Forum, the Latin American revolutionary revival--in short, all the efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies, among whom number the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other economic instruments of the powerful.A true global history, __The Poorer Nations__ is informed by interviews with leading players such as senior UN officials, as well as Prashad's pioneering research into archives of the Julius Nyerere--led South Commission.

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Author
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros;Prashad, Vijay
Publisher
Verso Books
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781844679522
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Business, Economics
Rating
3.97 / 5 (114 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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