is a form of suicide” said a father of a surfistas who was killed. ‘‘Brazilian youth is suffering so much, they see no reason to live.” | Additional evidence reveals extensive suffering throughout Africa. Parts of Asia, kind Latin America, where privatized adjustment has been practiced for more than a decade in a world economy of slower growth. As the United Nations Childrens Fund noted m its. 1990 annual] report, “Over the course of the l98Us, average incomes have fallen by 10% in most of Latin America and by over 20 % in sub-Saharan Africa. .. In many urban, areas, the minimum wages have decided by as much as 50 per cent.” The World Rank estimates that as many as Additional evidence reveals extensive suffering throughout Africa. Parts of Asia, kind Latin America, where privatized adjustment has been practiced for more than a decade in a world economy of slower growth. As the United Nations Childrens Fund noted m its. 1990 annual] report, “Over the course of the l98Us, average incomes have fallen by 10% in most of Latin America and by over 20 % in sub-Saharan Africa. .. In many urban, areas, the minimum wages have decided by as much as 50 per cent.” The World Bank estimates that as many as Additional evidence reveals extensive suffering throughout Africa. Parts of Asia, kind Latin America, where privatized adjustment has been practiced for more than a decade in a world economy of slower growth. As the United Nations Childrens Fund noted m its. 1990 annual] report, “Over the course of the 1980s, average incomes have fallen by 10% in most of Latin America and by over 20 % in sub-Saharan Africa. .. In many urban, areas, the minimum wages have decided by as much as 50 per cent.” The World Rank estimates that as many as 950 million of the worlds 5.2 billion people arc chronically malnourished— more than twice as many hungry people as a decade ago. In Latin America, people are talking about a lost decade, even a lost generation. In Rio dc Janeiro, the lack of meaningful futures lias given birth to a new sport: tram surfing. Brazilian street children stand atop trains, beside a 3300 volt cable that sends trains hurtling at speeds of 120 kilometers per hour. During an 18- month period in 1987—88, train surfing in Rio produced some 200 deaths and 500 gruesome injuries. “Its a form of suicide” said a father of a surfistas who was killed. ‘‘Brazilian youth is suffering so much, they see no reason to live.” International Political Economy. London, GBR: Routledge, 1999 (pg 392-393)
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