The anti-globalization breakfast club : manifesto for a peaceful revolution / Laurence J. Brahm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Global Meltdown -- The Washington Consensus Goes Bust -- 1. What's Wrong with the Washington Consensus? -- It Forces Alien, Irrelevant Models on Developing Societies -- 2. The World Needs an Alternative -- Confessions of a Former Commercial Lawyer -- 3. Grassroots Approaches That Solve Real Problems -- Founding an NGO in the Himalayas -- 4. The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club -- Emergence of a Global Justice Movement -- 5. Time to Revamp the WTO -- Joining the Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club -- 6. Redefining Contemporary Development -- Trash the Ideology and Use What Works -- 7. The Environmental Priority -- We Are Ruining the Earth Faster Than the Global Economy Is Growing -- 8. The Micro-credit Revolution Works -- Small Finance Is Beautiful and Can Improve Lives -- 9. Begin by Reshaping Values -- The “Gross National Happiness” Alternative -- 10. Empowering the Marginalized -- To Stop Terrorism, Focus on Its Roots -- 11. “High Time to Shut Up” -- Moving Towards Multilateralism -- 12. The Revolt Against Cyclical Poverty -- Nepalese Maoists Come in From the Cold -- 13. Starting From the Villages -- In Sri Lanka's Countryside, a Middle Road -- 14. The Buddhist Revolution -- Why Compassion Should Be Combined With Capitalism -- Conclusion Enter the Himalayan Consensus -- Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution.

"Alternative models for grass roots economic development such as micro-financing are now being widely adopted in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and elsewhere. New views on measuring development such as GDH (gross domestic happiness) have been adopted by Bhutan rather than GDP, and China's own hybrid approach combining market and planned policy to achieve economic transformation offer new choices for developing countries. All of these are representative of a new wave of thinking that rejects the increasingly discredited policies of the IMF and World Bank. It is easy to criticise the views of activists who take to the street every time the World Bank, IMF, WTO or World Economic Forum meet. However they are driven by hard concerns which are not calling for an end to globalization but a reorientation of what this means. They are challenging notions of accepted economic and business parlance, calling for fair trade rather than just free trade; balanced rather than fast growth; and protection of domestic cottage industries and with it ethnic diversification and social identity. In many respects the term is a misnomer. They are calling for fairer re-distribution of the fruits of globalization and a humane reduction of its side-effects through sensitivities to local conditional realities. This book brings together the views of many of the world's leading thinkers in alternative policy studies. Their collective views represent a fascinating insight into a growing movement that is slowly but surely affecting the way the world does business."--Publisher's website.

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