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DESCRIPTION:Rick Rowden, PhD student in economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) 
 in New Delhi, and former senior policy analyst for the Washington DC office 
 of the international development NGO, ActionAid\n\nPatrick Bond is senior 
 professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies 
 and a visiting scholar at the UC-Berkeley Department of 
 Geography.\n\n\n\nBay Area local and anti-IMF activist, Rick Rowden, 
 returns to SF to discuss his new book (London, Zed Books), and to answer 
 your questions about the IMF, the global economic recession and how 
 citizens are mobilizing with a rights-based approach for alternative 
 economic policies.\n\nRick is an expert on the IMF, a former senior policy 
 analyst for the Washington DC office of the international advocacy NGO, 
 ActionAid, which works with women’s rights organizations, small farmers 
 and health and education activists in 45 countries around Africa, Asia and 
 Latin America.\n\nDuring the recent global financial meltdown, the IMF 
 launched a public relations offensive in which it tried to re-invent 
 itself, promising to change its unpopular economic policies that are 
 attached as conditions on the loans it gives to developing countries during 
 economic crises. But Rowden will dispel these myths, show what the IMF is 
 really up to, and explain how its policies impact the economies of 
 developing countries and in particular, how they undermine the financing 
 which is desperately needed for public health services and the fight 
 against HIV/AIDS.\n\nHe will also discuss the many ways in which networks 
 of activists throughout the Global South are using a human rights-based 
 approach to challenge these economic policies and open public spaces for a 
 broader discussion of possible alternative economic policies for creating 
 jobs and increasing\npublic investment.\n\nA graduate of SF State, Rick 
 Rowden taught Political Science at Golden Gate University in San Francisco 
 and Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay before 
 moving to Washington DC, where he spent nearly a decade working with 
 activists around the world against the policies of the IMF, World Bank and 
 WTO. Recently, he worked for the United Nations in Geneva and is currently 
 doing his PhD in economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New 
 Delhi, India.\n\nThis event is organized by Priority Africa Network, ActUP 
 East Bay,and International Development Exchange (IDEX)\nSponsored by Women 
 Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD) and Global 
 Exchange. \nFor more information, please contact PAN email: 
 priorityafrica@yahoo.com or call (510) 663 2255 
 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (510) 663 
 2255      end_of_the_skype_highlighting\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/24/18656741.php
SUMMARY:The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism:
LOCATION:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/24/18656741.php
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