Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962.
In a dog-eat-dog global economy, the US and its multinational corporate clients have all the advantages, while Jamaica has no agriculture, no industry, and no tax base--only ever-growing debt.\"@Introduction -- Welcome to Jamaica -- The International Monetary Fund -- Independence -- Lending -- The sunshine guarantee -- Island production -- Trade barriers -- Dairy -- Bananas -- Tourists -- Free zones -- Life and debt -- McDonald\'s -- Chicken parts -- Peppers, spices and tourism -- Circumstances -- Just human beings -- Be still Babylon -- End credits.\"@ # International trade--Moral and ethical aspects\n
The poverty of an "average" Jamaican in a shantytown near Kingston is in stark contrast to the luxurious tropical fantasy paradise experienced by tourists in posh Montego Bay. Marcin Janos Krawczyk looks at one child's fate through the eyes of the mother who must make ...In the shadow of Silicon Valley, a hidden community thrives despite difficult circumstances.
This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Jamaica — land of sea, sand and sun.
Using conventional and unconventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports.
Seven billion in debt (circa 2000), Jamaica has seen its agricultural industries laid to waste by the impossibility of competing with subsidized, multi-national American based companies. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es).The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format.
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Although his quick temper earned him the nickname "Angry Bird," he has made significant changes in the lives of the choir children. This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item?
( # International trade--Moral and ethical aspects\n # International trade--Moral and ethical aspects\nThis documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962.
For one resident, eight-year-old Geovany Cesario, impending change is bittersweet.Through the deeply personal truths of three local residents, A young gay man from Ghana struggles to reconcile his sexuality and love for his mother through a series of letters in this deceptively simple yet powerful piece.In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into men and women. Please enter your name.The E-mail message field is required. In a dog-eat-dog global economy, the US and its multinational corporate clients have all the advantages, while Jamaica has no agriculture, no industry, and no tax base--only ever-growing debt.The subject field is required.
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Documentary about the destructive effects of conditions attached to loans from the IMF and World Bank, made to Jamaica from the time of the oil crisis of the early 1970s. And a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Please enter the subject.
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