What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guests: Nancy Alexander (Part 1) Global south countries have created new development institutions in response to the World Bank and IMF's (Bretton Woods institutions) historic hold on development finance. Does this improve prospects for environmental sustainability and equity for women and the poor? Nancy Alexander, Director of the Economic Governance Program at the Heinrich Boell Foundation-US, isn't optimistic. Her policy work involves monitoring how powerful countries and corporations make rules in the G8 and G20 that optimize their investment opportunities - at the expense of the public sector and those services that would support non-industrial agriculture. She also describes how trade agreements now under negotiation will have additional adverse consequences - making "pariahs" of and recolonializing the economies of countries left out.