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Thursday, June 27, 2002

Mike Pesca is in for Brian Lehrer.
As a Chief Economist at the World Bank, Nobel-laureate Joseph Stiglitz was once on the forefront of the movement for free trade. But after seeing the effects of IMF and World Bank prescriptions for faltering economies, Stiglitz changed his tune. Find out what Stigliz suggests now as an alternative model for economic development.

In The Belly Of The Beast: The Machinations of a Terror Organization.

Rohan Gunaratna Author Inside Al Qaeda (Columbia University Press, 2002) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/

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An Unnecessary Dosage of Economic Medicine: The Faults Of The IMF and World Bank

Joseph E. Stiglitz Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and Author "Globalization and Its Discontents"(W.W. Norton and Company, 2002)

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