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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt" lang="EN-GB">"The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism: How the IMF Has Undermined Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS" (Zed Books Ltd)</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">by Rick Rowden</span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">About the Book</span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang="EN-GB">The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism</span></font></i></b><b><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang="EN-GB"> explores the history of and current collision between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of neoliberal economic ideas. The book explains not only how IMF policies of restrictive spending have exacerbated public health problems in developing countries, in particular the HIV/AIDS crisis, but also how such issues cannot be resolved under these economic policies. It also suggests how mounting global frustration about this inability to adequately address HIV/AIDS will ultimately lead to challenges to the dominant neoliberal ideas, as other more effective economic ideas for increasing public spending are sought. </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">In stark, powerful terms, Rowden offers a unique and in-depth critique of development economics, the political economy dynamics of global foreign aid and health institutions, and how these seemingly abstract</span></font></b></strong><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri" lang="EN-GB"> <strong><b><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">factors play out in the real world - from the highest levels of global institutions to African finance and health ministries to rural health outposts in the countryside of developing nations, and back again.</span></font></b></strong></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">Table of Contents</span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">Part I Emergence of HIV/AIDS and the global response </span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">1 The history of global funding to fight HIV/AIDS </span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">2 The impact of the AIDS response on public health systems</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">3 The shortage of healthcare workers and the ‘brain drain’ problem</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">4 The debate over ‘vertical’ versus ‘horizontal’ donor aid</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">5 Different types of health systems, different types of financing</span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">Part II The neoliberal development model</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">6 The Reagan revolution, structural adjustment and the Washington Consensus</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">7 Neoliberal theory and its policies</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">8 The consequences for development</span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">Part III Consequences for health</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">9 The demise of public health and the rise of neoliberalism </span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">10 The consequences for health</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">11 Thirty years later: coming full circle – rediscovering public health</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">12 The IMF: blocking progress on public health</span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font><strong><b><font color="#009900" size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #009900; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">Click here for an </span></font></b></strong><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri" lang="EN-GB"><a title="blocked::http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/atg/AtG_2010.03.16_Keeping_Nations_Down.mp3" href="http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/atg/AtG_2010.03.16_Keeping_Nations_Down.mp3" target="_blank"><strong><b><font color="#3333ff" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #3333ff">audio clip of an interview with the author</span></font></b></strong></a><strong><b><font color="#009900" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #009900"> on KPFA's "Against the Grain" radio program in the San Francisco Bay Area</span></font></b></strong></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font><strong><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-GB">The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism by Rick Rowden is published by Zed Books in the UK. For more information or to request a press copy contact Ruvani de Silva on +44 20 7837 8466 or </span></font></b></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a title="blocked::mailto:ruvani.de_silva@zedbooks.net" href="mailto:ruvani.de_silva@zedbooks.net" target="_blank"><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">ruvani.de_silva@zedbooks.net</font></b></strong></a></span></p>
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