>From the speech by Fidel Castro in [6804]: > The rich world should condone their foreign debt and grant them fresh soft credits to finance their development. The traditional offers of assistance, always scant and often ridiculous, are either inadequate or unfulfilled. For a true and sustainable economic and social development to take place much more is required than is usually admitted. Measures as those suggested by the late James Tobin to curtail the irrepressible flow of currency speculation --albeit it was not his idea to foster development-- would perhaps be the only ones capable of generating enough funds, which in the hands of the UN agencies and not of awful institutions like the IMF, could supply direct development assistance with a democratic participation of all countries and without the need to sacrifice the independence and sovereignty of the peoples. < Castro gives pretty sweeping support above for the Tobin Tax. Should we? A Tobin page: http://cepa.newschool.edu/~het/profiles/tobin.htm Other Web pages on the Tobin Tax -- there are *many* others as well! -- are at the end of this post. Which page(s) have the best analysis? In solidarity, Jerry http://www.globalsolidarity.org/arttobtax.html http://www.justiceplus.org/tobin_tax.htm http://www.waronwant.org/tobin/winn1.htm http://www.marxist.com/Europe/tobin_tax_and_ATTAC_400.html http://www.inisoc.org/harribey.htm [Spanish] http://www.po.org.ar/po/ingles/lcr-lo-612.htm http://www.worldsocialism.org/tobin.htm http://www.ceedweb.org/iirp/ http://www.tobintax.org.uk/ http://www.web.net/~halifax/Tobin/tobinindex.htm http://www.attac.org/fra/toil/doc/oxfam.htm http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wssd/wssd5/wssd5tobin.htm http://www.cepr.net/globalization/speculation/
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