Fwd: [stop-imf] List of 20 Years of IMF Protests in the Global South (fw

Some simple "data" on protests versus the IMF:


>Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:32:48 -0000
>From: rowden@action.org
>       (Rick Rowden, Results)
>
>
>                         Anti-IMF/World Bank Protests in the Global South
>                                         1976-2001, (a partial list):
>
>
>                                         Jul 1976        Peru
>                                         Jan 1977        Egypt
>                                         Sep 1978        Ghana
>                                         Jan 1979        Jamaica
>                                         Apr 1979        Liberia
>                                         Feb 1980        Philippines
>                                         May 1980        Zaire
>                                         Jul 1980        Turkey
>                                         Jun 1981        Morocco
>                                         Aug 1981        Sierra Leone
>                                         Jan 1982        Sudan
>                                         Mar 1982        Argentina
>                                         Oct 1982        Ecuador
>                                         Oct 1982        Chile
>                                         Mar 1983        Bolivia
>                                         Apr 1983        Brazil
>                                         Oct 1983        Panama
>                                         Jan 1984        Tunisia
>                                         Apr 1984        Dominican Rep.
>                                         Jan 1985        Jamaica
>                                         Mar 1985        Bolivia
>                                         Mar 1985        Zaire
>                                         May 1985        Haiti
>                                         May 1985        El Salvador
>                                         Aug 1985        Costa Rica
>                                         Sep 1985        Guatemala
>                                         Sep 1985        Bolivia
>                                         Feb 1986        Mexico
>                                         May 1986        Nigeria
>                                         Sep 1986        Bolivia
>                                         Nov 1986        Yugoslavia
>                                         Jan 1987        Zambia
>                                         Jan 1987        Sierra Leone
>                                         Mar 1987        Poland
>                                         Mar 1987        Ghana
>                                         Mar 1987        Ecuador
>                                         Oct 1987        Ecuador
>                                         Nov 1987        Algeria
>                                         Nov 1987        Romania
>                                         Nov 1987        Sudan
>                                         Apr 1988        Nigeria
>                                         Jun 1988        Ghana
>                                         Aug 1988        Hungary
>                                         Oct 1988        Algeria
>                                         Jan 1989        Benin
>                                         Feb 1989        Venezuela
>                                         Apr 1989        Jordan
>                                         Apr 1989        Benin
>                                         May 1989        Argentina
>                                         May 1989        Nigeria
>                                         Feb 1990        Ivory Coast
>                                         Feb 1990        Niger
>                                         Mar 1990        Nigeria
>                                         Jun 1990        Zambia
>                                         Jul 1990        Trinidad
>                                         Dec 1990        Uganda
>                                         Dec 1990        Morocco
>                                         May 1991        Nigeria
>                                         Aug 1991        Iran
>                                         Feb 1992        Albania
>                                         Feb 1992        Venezuela
>                                         Feb 1992        India
>                                         Apr 1992        Nepal
>                                         May 1992        Zimbabwe
>                                         May 1992        Nigeria
>                                         Dec 1992        India
>                                         Oct 1993        India
>                                         Oct 1993        Russia
>                                         Jan 1994        Mexico
>                                         May 1994        Uganda
>                                         Jun 1994        Gabon
>                                         Jul 1995        Ecuador
>                                         Nov 1995        Kenya
>                                         Feb 1997        South Africa
>                                         May 1998        Indonesia
>                                         Feb 1999        Romania
>                                         Apr 1999        Mexico
>                                         May 1999        Argentina
>                                         Jul 1999        Ecuador
>                                         Dec 1999        Argentina
>                                         Jan 2000        Ecuador
>                                         Mar 2000        Costa Rica
>                                         Apr 2000        Bolivia
>                                         Apr 2000        Argentina
>                                         Apr 2000        Kenya
>                                         Apr 2000        Zambia
>                                         May 2000        South Africa
>                                         May 2000        Turkey
>                                         May 2000        Argentina
>                                         May 2000        India
>                                         May 2000        Malawi
>                                         May 2000        Russia
>                                         Jun 2000        Nigeria
>                                         Jun 2000        Paraguay
>                                         Jun 2000        Argentina
>                                         Jun 2000        Ecuador
>                                         Aug 2000        Columbia
>                                         Aug 2000        Honduras
>                                         Sep 2000        Brazil
>                                         Feb 2001        Ecuador
>                                         Mar 2001        Argentina
>                                         Mar 2001        Bolivia
>                                         Mar 2001        Paraguay
>                                         Apr 2001        Argentina
>
>
>Major Sources:
>
>1) Walton, John and David Seddon.  Free Markets and Food Riots: The
>Politics
>of Global Adjustment.  Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.
>
>2)Woodroffe, Jessica and Mark Ellis-Jones.  "States of Unrest:
>Resistance to
>IMF Policies in Poor Countries,"  World Development Movement report
>(London).  September 2000.
>
>3)Caffentzis, George and Silvia Federici, "A Brief History of
>Resistance to
>Structural Adjustment" in Danaher, Kevin, ed.,  Democratizing the
>Global
>Economy: The Battle Against the IMF and World Bank. San Francisco and
>Monroe, ME: Global Exchange and Common Courage Press, 2001.
>
>
>
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