RES: Gunter Grass on globalisation

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad de Long wrote.
>
>The big distortion here is the claim that the rise in the rural
>poverty rate by 8.6 percentage points between 1990-1991 and 1992 was
>the direct result of the sudden imposition of "neoliberal" policies...
>
>
>-What would be the alternative explanations?
>
>				Alexandre

Bad weather. It recovered in the following two years, and then has 
been roughly flat for the rest of the 1990s...