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How does neoliberal economic globalization impact our economic and social human rights, especially the right to food?

Mandatory Sources and Recommended Structure of the Paper:

1. Theoretical Introduction: Economic Globalization

You should first discuss the concept of economic globalization by focusing on the role of global actors (IMF, WB, WTO) and the consequences of macro-economic structural adjustment programs (SAPs) on economic and social human rights.

Explain why many critics argue that neoliberal corporate economic globalization with its free-market ideology has failed to deliver the promise of 'trickle-down' wealth that would benefit all people on earth, especially the poor.

MANDATORY SOURCES - Choose at least two authors to define and discuss the key concepts from the course readings, for instance:

Joel Bakan's concept of the corporation and its rise to dominance due to neoliberal economic globalization.

Joseph Stiglitz's account of economic globalization and the IMF and WB's failure to provide economic stability and eradicate poverty.

Michel Chossudovsky's concept of 'the globalization of poverty" imposed by the IMF and World Bank's structural adjustment programs (SAPs).

Naomi Klein's concepts of economic shock therapy and the rise of disaster capitalism.