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7.5/10   444 votes
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Director:
Stephanie Black
Writers:
Jamaica Kincaid (narration)
Jamaica Kincaid (novel)
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Release Date:
28 February 2003 (UK) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture. | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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the foibles of globalization more

Cast

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Belinda Becker ... Narrator (voice)
Buju Banton ... Himself - Singer
Horst Köhler ... Himself - Director, International Monetary Fund (archive footage) (as Horst Kohler)
Michael Manley ... Himself - Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
Stanley Fischer ... Himself - Deputy Director International Monetary Fund
Michael Witter ... Himself - Professor of Economics, University of West Indies (as Dr. Michael Witter)
David Coore ... Himself - Former Minister of Finance, Jamaica

Bill Clinton ... Himself - President of the United States (archive footage)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide ... Himself - President, Haiti
Yami Bolo ... Himself - Singer
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Kathy Owen ... News Anchor
Jerry J. Rawlings ... Himself - Former President, Ghana (archive footage) (as Jerry Rawlings)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Certification:
Australia:G | New Zealand:G
Filming Locations:
Jamaica more

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
the foibles of globalization, 4 February 2002
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Author: neoteny

This documentary perfectly captures the largely-ignored downside to globalization and the subsequent domination of the world economy by the U.S. and Western Europe. Namely, that undeveloped and developing countries continue to get poorer at the expense of the rich. This documentary presents the human side for discussions about the impact of multinational corporations on human rights abuses, price fixing in order to drive local competition into failure, environmental destruction as the result of World Bank-mandated "structural adjustments," etc. This is a must see for anyone who thinks that globalization is the only way for developing countries to compete with the rest of the world, and for anyone wanting to know the reasons behind all of those protests.

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