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SLP446 Alex Gladstein The Scourge of “Structural Adjustment”
About this episode
Alex Gladstein of HRF rejoins me on the show to chat about:
- Attending Africa Bitcoin Conference
- How the World Bank and IMF keep poorer countries in a debt trap
- The ‘strings’ attached to debt
- Odious debt
- Cash crops
- How does this resolve?
- Will Bitcoin help fix this?
Links:
- Twitter: @gladstein
- Article: Structural Adjustment: How the Imf and World Bank Repress Poor Countries and Funnel Their Resources to Rich Ones
- HRF grants: HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Awards $325,000 in New Grants
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