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    Staged Cities: Mega-events, Slum Clearance, and Global Capital

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    Greene, Solomon
    
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    In 1991, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) held their joint international conference in Bangkok, bringing over 10,000 delegates from more than 160 countries to the city. In the months before the event, the Thai government forcibly removed over 2,000 slum dwellers from the areas immediately surrounding the new $90 million Queen Sirikit National Convention Center that hosted the conference.2 Hundreds of shanties in informal settlements were destroyed and a huge metal wall was erected to conceal the devastation left behind.3 Similarly, when the World Bank and IMF held their conference in the Philippines in 1976, President Marcos initiated a "beautification" campaign in which 400 families were evicted from slums in Manila during the months preceding the event. Despite the array of slum improvement programs financed by the World Bank,5 Thailand and the Philippines both relied on shortsighted strategies of forced removal in order to conceal the existence of slum dwellers and, in doing so, protect national claims of "development."
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