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The debt crisis in Latin America has rekindled debate about the effects of the IMF's stabilization programs in the Third World. Critics contend that these programs have short-run recessionary impacts and damage prospects for long-term growth. In response, Fund economists point to cross-country studies revealing mixed impacts on growth rates coupled with significant success in achieving the IMF's stated goals: current account and balance-of-payments improvements and inflation rate reduction. Dr. Pastor argues that the traditional growth-oriented critique is theoretically misplaced, and he recasts Fund activities in terms of class and income distribution. Applying the methodology of previous Fund studies, he evaluates the effects of IMF programs in eighteen Latin American countries in the pre-crisis period (1965-1981).

The West Bank in 2014 -- The 2014 confrontation between Israel and Hamas : the goals and the battles -- The 2014 confrontation : outside intervention and outcome -- The Syrian civil war -- The cold war between Israel and both Iran and Hezbollah -- Egypt : risks and opportunities -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Various aspects of Israel's status quo, 1948-82 -- Appendix II : Differences and similarities between the wars in Libya in 2011 and Syria.

Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- NORTHERN EXPOSURE -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN -- FOOL'S PARADISE -- TOP OF THE WORLD -- GENERAL MARIJUANA -- DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS -- FLOWER OF BEKAA -- CITY OF DEATH -- A DATE WITH TEN MILLION DATES -- DOCTOR LOWELL, I PRESUME -- MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING -- BETTER THAN SEX -- ISLAND UNIVERSE -- END GAME -- EPILOGUE: IN CUSTODY.

From the Sixties Scoop to Baby Veronica : transracial adoption of indigenous children in the USA and Canada / Roger L. Nichols -- Stimulating and resisting transborder indigenous adoptions in North America in the 1970s / Margaret D. Jacobs -- "Disastrous adoption"? : representations of fetal alcohol syndrome and disability in recent Native North American writing / Mark Shackleton -- Indigenous identity, forced transracial removal, and intergenerational trauma in Linda Hogan's Solar storms and Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Pirjo Ahokas -- Sugarcoated prejudice : adoption and transethnic adoption in Forrest Carter's The education of Little Tree / Bo Pettersson -- Writing and identity in Jane Jeong Trenka's life narratives / Lena Ahlin -- The (T)race of Trojan horses : transracial adoption and adoptive being in Phan's We should never meet and Truong's Bitter in the mouth / Begoña Simal-González -- Mythologizing transnational and transracial adoption in Mona Friis Bertheussen's Twin sisters : a world apart / Alan Shima -- Stories matter : contextualizing the Black German American adoptee experience(s) / Rosemarie Peña -- Girls interrupted, business unbegun, and precarious homes : literary representations of transracial adoption in contemporary South Asian diasporic women's fiction / Christine Vogt-William -- "A daughter three thousand miles off" : transcultural adoption in Susan Warner's The wide, wide world / Jane Weiss -- Cruel chronologies : Ireland, America, and transatlantic adoption in The lost child of Philomena Lee and Philomena / John McLeod

The Armenian genocide -- Hitler's accomplices before the war -- Complicity during the war -- Complicity after the war -- The universal declaration's origins and principles -- The misconceived Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- The ineffectiveness of the UN organization -- The modern succession of genocides -- UN and European cowardice -- The demoralized World Court -- The UN in the footsteps of Hitler -- A new world organization