The Monfort Plan : The New Architecture of Capitalism
The Monfort Plan is a five-year, forward looking plan to eradicate extreme poverty from the developing world, and details how microfinance has made a difference to developing countries. This book proposes a new institution based in the developing world with the potential to provide a basic, free, and universal service in the areas of water, sanitation, healthcare, and education to the extreme poor worldwide. The provision will be subject to a certain degree of conditionality in areas ranging from corruption to legal environment. The new institution will be established in a new international territory based within a specific country in Subsaharan Africa and will emerge in 2015.
In The Monfort Plan author Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort engineers and designs a solution to lessen the burden of poverty. In order to do so he relies on the social sciences to bring about innovation and forward looking economic policies and financial instruments in the context of a paradigm shift. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to policymaking that combines a range of fields in the social sciences, looking at the history behind the Marshall Plan, the formation of the European Union, and the Bretton Woods Institutions, in order to determine how a Marshall Plan for Africa-and the creation of New Institutions in the developing world-could work. We live a moment of crisis in which creative policymaking might prove useful when proposing outcomes for a revitalized framework for capitalism to thrive and better serve the world.
- Walks you through the technicalities of the new architecture of capitalism in a straightforward manner
- Provides a holistic view of how microfinance combined with the right economic policies and financial instruments could help change the world for the poor
- Contains sweeping and detailed recommendations on how to build a new capitalist paradigm that helps elevate the poor and improve the human condition
Incorporating commentary from some of the top minds in the field of microfinance, this book puts the method of microfinance in perspective.
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
A New Generation xiv
It Is Time xv
PART ONE A New Paradigm 1
CHAPTER 1 Bretton Woods and the Washington Consensus 3
CHAPTER 2 Redefining Capitalism 15
CHAPTER 3 Globalization and Poverty 23
CHAPTER 4 The Reality of Aid 37
CHAPTER 5 The World’s Income Distribution 51
PART TWO The Axis of Feeble 63
CHAPTER 6 Agriculture 65
CHAPTER 7 Trade Liberalization and Labor Rights 91
CHAPTER 8 Small Arms Trade 109
CHAPTER 9 The Extractive Industries 123
CHAPTER 10 Financial Architecture 135
CHAPTER 11 Brain Drain 149
PART THREE Reform 161
CHAPTER 12 Lobbies and Elites 163
CHAPTER 13 Institutional Reform 175
CHAPTER 14 The Sleeping Beauty 191
CHAPTER 15 The Third Sector 203
PART FOUR The Building Process 217
CHAPTER 16 Marshall Revisited 219
CHAPTER 17 The Annan Plan 239
CHAPTER 18 A Eutopia of Universal Welfare 265
CHAPTER 19 The New Institution 283
CHAPTER 20 Conditionality 303
PART FIVE Financing Eutopia 313
CHAPTER 21 Collateral 315
CHAPTER 22 The Yunus: A New Currency for the Poor 333
CHAPTER 23 Microsavings Insurance 349
CHAPTER 24 The Decem Series 361
CHAPTER 25 Innovative Financing 373
PART SIX Decemland 387
CHAPTER 26 The New International Territory 389
CHAPTER 27 Islands of Peace 397
CHAPTER 28 The Race of the Century 407
CHAPTER 29 The Monfort Team 421
CHAPTER 30 The New Economic Architecture 433
Notes 443
Bibliography 453
About the Author 475
Index 477
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