tailieunhanh - confessions of an economic hitman phần 2

một chiến lược đầu tư dựa trên các nguyên tắc cơ bản của thị số giá tiêu dùng (CPI), được biên soạn bởi Cục Thống kê lao động (BLS), là một trung bình có trọng số thống kê của một rổ hàng hóa, dịch vụ mua của người tiêu dùng trên khắp đất nước. Chỉ số giá tiêu dùng là điều gần gũi nhất với chỉ số giá sinh hoạt | Ann and I applied to the Peace Corps and requested an assignment in the Amazon. When our acceptance notification arrived my first reaction was one of extreme disappointment. The letter stated that we would be sent to Ecuador. Oh no I thought. I requested the Amazon not Africa. I went to an atlas and looked up Ecuador. I was dismayed when I could not find it anywhere on the African continent. In the index though I discovered that it is indeed located in Latin America and I saw on the map that the river systems flowing off its Andean glaciers form the headwaters to the mighty Amazon. Further reading assured me that Ecuador s jungles were some of the world s most diverse and formidable and that the indigenous people still lived much as they had for millennia. We accepted. Ann and I completed Peace Corps training in Southern California and headed for Ecuador in September 1968. We lived in the Amazon with the Shuar whose lifestyle did indeed resemble that of precolonial North American natives we also worked in the Andes with descendants of the Incas. It was a side of the world I never dreamed still existed. Until then the only Latin Americans I had met were the wealthy preppies at the school where my father taught. I found myself sympathizing with these indigenous people who subsisted on hunting and farming. I felt an odd sort of kinship with them. Somehow they reminded me of the townies I had left behind. One day a man in a business suit Einar Greve landed at the airstrip in our community. He was a vice president at Chas. T. Main Inc. MAIN an international consulting firm that kept a very low profile and that was in charge of studies to determine whether the World Bank should lend Ecuador and its neighboring countries billions of dollars to build hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure projects. Einar also was a colonel in the . Army Reserve. He started talking with me about the benefits of working for a company like MAIN. When I mentioned that I had been .