Issue 212: July/August 1997

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features

• Economy in Review

  By Edward Herman

  Privatization: Downsizing Government for Principle and Profit

• The Albanian House of Cards

  By Fred Abrahams

• The New Loan Sharks

  By Michael Hudson

• 'Miracle' in Philadelphia

  By Marc Breslow

  Can Fiscal Management Really Save the Cities?

• Why Did the USSR Fall?

  By David Kotz and Fred Weir

  The Party Elite, Not the Masses, Wanted Capitalism

• The Grameen Bank Story

  Grameen's Lessons

  By Errol T. Louis

  Microlending for Economic Development

  By Muhammad Yunus

• Catdang Basket Project

  By Eleanor J. Bader

  A Vietnam Story

• Labor Forum

  Interview with Wilmer Erroa Argueta

  Fighting Phone Privatization in El Salvador

the regulars

• the short run Virtual Parenting
• letters Discrimination | Recycling | HMO Monsters
• active culture Swords into Plowshares
• making sense The Che Marketing Moment | Let's Close the CEO Salary Loophole | Taking Aim at Child Slavery
• comment Consume, and Be Consumed
• in review Alternatives to the Peace Corps
• ask dr. dollar Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy
• economy in numbers Comparing Apples and Apples