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Hoisting the “Knowledge Bank” on Its Own Petard: The World Bank and the “Double Crisis” of African Universities
George Caffentzis, of Midnight Notes and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, on the World Bank and the 'double crisis of Africa universities'.
Hoisting the “Knowledge Bank” on Its Own Petard: The World Bank and the “Double Crisis” of African Universities
by George Caffentzis
Presented at the Faculty of Humanities Seminar
Rhodes University
Grahamstown, South Africa
Feb. 16, 2010
Struggle is like education and it just keeps going on.
[i]For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Globalisation - further reading guide
libcom's guide to further reading on globalisation and the struggle against it.
Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy - Noreena Hertz
Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture - David Held, et al
The Globalization Syndrome - James H. Mittelman
The World Bank - Cheryl Payer
Panic Rules! Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy – Hahnel
Bangladesh; life's a gas! $100 a month employee grabs 'bonus' of $145 million
The extent of the corruption discovered within the Bangladeshi gas supply industry is astonishing even the anti-corruption investigators (see earlier story).
The head of the state-owned Titas Gas Distribution Company has estimated that 80% of his employees (including, as he was obliged to admit, himself) are corrupt - investigators are trying to trace just how many millions have been siphoned off. It is claimed that "almost everyone in the company is a millionaire".
World Bank says: work 24/7 with no rights
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A new World Bank report calls for the wholesale elimination of workers' rights.
The 2007 edition of the ‘Doing Business’ report has declared the Marshall Islands to be the world’s “Best Performer” for its almost total absence of labour regulation, displacing last year’s champion, Palau.
