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INTERDEPENDENT ECONOMY
A project to transform
our way of thinking about the economy: from fear of scarcity to a sense of sharing the affluence of our world
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LIEM GIOK IN - the author
To be a leader
and a student
is the noblest way to be
A leader who takes upon himself
responsability for the well-being of
others
A student who wants to investigate
his own mind and develop its potential
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INTERDEPENDENT ECONOMY...
...proposes a new and encompassing
view on economic policy that will bring balance to the global economy and empowerment to people.
...is not ideology;
it is mere logic followed to the end. This logic is rooted in a basic need felt by all people in this world - to live and
to survive.
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LIEM GIOK IN studied economics at the University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland. She then studied Buddhism with the Tibetan master Geshe Rabten Rinpoche.
In her professional career
her focus was the relation between mainstream economic policies and development policy and practice. She lives in The Netherlands.
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ISBN
0-595-33152-1 - or
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WHAT ARE THE TOPICS "INTERDEPENDENT ECONOMY"
DISCUSSES?
Issues of macroeconomic policy - local, national or globally interwoven - are analysed. We place question
marks at the dictate of growth of GNP, bi- and multilateral development relations, the agenda of fighting poverty, free trade
and international finance.
We wonder what role the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO should play. We say that people
and governments of third world countries must assertively set their own agenda’s. To achieve development there is no need
for donor’s programmes and conditions.
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Finally we put forward that awareness and empowerment
for people is the basis and goal of all human civilization. In this 21st century, these should be the lead for political decision-making.
To pursue mere power of states is an obsolete concept. Politics of “the struggle for markets and survival of the fittest”
must end if it is world peace that we want to achieve. Is there a role to play for the United Nations in finally updating
our thinking?
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