[lbo-talk] Samir Amin critiques Stiglitz report

[John E. Norem]

This critique relates to the Report of the Commission of Experts of the 
President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International 
Monetary and Financial System <http://snipurl.com/rjh2f>. This 
commission was set up by the current president of the United Nations 
General Assembly, Padre Miguel D’Escoto, and presented to that Assembly 
at its meeting of 24–26 June, 2009. Professor Stiglitz, the chair of the 
commission, had clearly imposed his own personal views. Therefore I 
consider correct entitling my critique ‘A critique of the Stiglitz 
Report’. The UN Assembly, therefore, experienced a setback, hardly 
noticed by the media. In reality, this was a victory for the countries 
of the South which, in abstaining from being represented at the required 
level, showed thereby, their refusal to ratify the unilateral decisions 
of the North, the only positions presented in the report.
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