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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. Title Page 2 Copyright 3 Dedication 4 Contents 5 Foreword by Boutros Boutros-Ghali 6 Introduction 8 Chapter 1: The Demise of Northern Atlantic Liberalism 20 Chapter 2: The Conundrums of the South 85 Chapter 3: The Locomotives of the South 137 Chapter 4: A

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Author

Vijay Prashad

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844679522

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Economics

Rating

3.97 / 5 (114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14