[asia-apec 1780] New Book from Food First Calls for Development for People, Not the WTO

[Anuradha Mittal]

Development for People, Not the WTO 
Advocates New Book from Food First/The Institute for Food and 
Development Policy


The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance

By Walden Bello, edited and with a preface by Anuradha Mittal


"Among the expanding constellation of activists, academics, and thinkers 
who believe that mainstream economics does not have an answer to 
people's needs, Walden Bello is a prominent star."

--Bangkok Post

(Oakland, CA)- The unholy trinity of the International Monetary Fund 
(IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), is based 
on exclusionary economics, faces a legitimacy crisis, and needs a 
complete overhaul to reflect true participation from Southern countries, 
according to the latest Food First book, The Future in the Balance: 
Essays on Globalization and Resistance, written by eminent 
scholar/activist Walden Bello, and edited and with a preface by Anuradha 
Mittal.

Bello and Mittal are two of our foremost experts on trade and the Third 
World.  They analyze the root causes of the current social, ecological, 
and financial crisis facing the world, in the process revealing 
little-known truths about the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, and their 
grip on the Third World. This book shatters the myths of development as 
prescribed by these institutions, and offers the possibility of a 
different world based on fairness and justice.

"This book is about the exercise of power in international relations, 
and the way this generates inequities, crisis, and, ultimately, 
resistance," said Walden Bello, Executive Director of Thailand-based 
Focus on the Global South, and author of the book. "The book is about 
the exercise of power by the United States, its impact on the global 
economy and on global politics, and about the responses it has evoked 
from other societies, peoples, and communities," he added.

"Those engaged in the process of international economic policy 
formulation invariably seek to erect a firewall between economic and 
social policy. It is vital that we tear down that artificial and 
insubstantial firewall. It is not possible to work in isolation. The 
message is clear: trade agreements must be tested first and foremost in 
social justice terms, not only in narrow economic terms," said Anuradha 
Mittal, co-director of Food First, and editor of The Future in the 
Balance.

The crisis of legitimacy, warns Bello, could create a vacuum where 
ideals and themes of democracy, equality, and freedom are hijacked and 
distorted by forces hostile to them. The Future in the Balance considers 
these problems and articulates an alternative order, one that creates a 
fully participatory process to build institutions that are subordinate 
to society instead of the other way around.

The Future in the Balance is co-published by Food First/Institute for 
Food and Development Policy and Focus on the Global South.

Food First, founded in 1975 by Frances Moore LappÈ and Joseph Collins 
after the success of Diet for a Small Planet, is a policy think tank 
that carries out research and education-for-action. Food First works to 
identify the root causes of hunger and poverty in the United States and 
around the world, and to educate the public as well as policy makers 
about these problems and alternative solutions to them.

Food First Books are distributed by LPC Group, 1436 West Randolph 
Street, Chicago, IL 60607, (800) 243-0138

Read the back cover, browse the table of contents, and purchase this 
book on-line at: http://www.foodfirst.org

Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact 
foodfirst at foodfirst.org.

Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst at foodfirst.org.

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