Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy

Author:Arundhati Roy [Roy, Arundhati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608460052
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2009-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

For instance, from the early 1990s, we have seen the systematic dismantling of laws that protect workers’ rights and the fundamental rights of ordinary people (the right to shelter/health/education /water). International financial institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) demand these not just as a precondition, but as a condition, set down in black and white, before they agree to sanction loans. (The polite term for it is “structural adjustment.”) What does the “rule of law” mean in a situation like this?

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