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Life & Debt: Life & Debt Is a Woven Tapestry of Sequences Focusing on the Stories of Individual Jamaicans Whose Strategies for s


World  (tags: Jamaica, 3rd World Countries, IMF, World Bank, USA )

Janet
- 57 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info
Life and Debt is a feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica
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Janet Solomon (249)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 12:12 pm
Life & Debt

Life and Debt is a feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica.

Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
[not like this a NEW thing--I lived there in my childhood, and it was a constant battle of global proportions as to what to buy, from which country [i.e. sometimes the only items available came from Communist countries, sometimes they were only available from Capitalist countries---it was like a game of 'dodge-ball' just to eat, as most of the produce was exported to pay off the IMF etc.].

And if you grew your OWN foood, it would be confiscated.
That was in the 70's--I can't even imagine how & where it went from there, as it had very little to with which political party was in power--except for the way 'shortages'[food, water] were handled.

Namaste!

 
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