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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 4 (1990) > Articles |
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Debt and Wrong-Way Resource Flows in Costa Rica [Abstract]
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December 2, 1990
External debt, poverty, and the use of natural resources are inextricably
linked. This article examines an ethical aspect of that linkage: the social
direction of resource flow. It argues that the direction in which a country's
economic resources are transferred-from poor to rich, or rich to poor-also sets
the pattern for the flow of natural resources. By extension, the same kinds of
forces that tend to impoverish human environments also tend to impoverish the
physical environment; and conversely, that which tends to restore or promote
equity generally tends to be good for the environment. For the past forty years,
Costa Rican government policies have been among the fairest and most
environmentally progressive in the Third World; yet Costa Rica is heavily in
debt in both the economic and environmental sense. Are the"right" policies not
right-or are they morally right but not workable? Annis examines this
paradoxical question using the notion of "dual debt" and "wrong-way resource
flows."
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