ABSTRACT
States become the primary resource for transnational capital in consolidating power in the hands of capital, and state power provides the legitimacy for the corporatization of resources where the majority of the wealth continues to flow into the hands of the power elite. This chapter interrogates neoliberal policies and programs pushed by the IFIs and WHO, and situates these policies and programs in the backdrop of their effects in the everyday lived experiences of households and communities. It explores the health correlates of neoliberalism in the realm of accelerated consumerism, a marker of globalization processes brought about by neoliberal reforms. The neoliberal restructuring of global economies is organized around the realization and exacerbation of political and economic inequalities, constituted around the hegemonic interpretations of growth-driven development. The chapter focuses on the pathways of the global flow of tobacco and unhealthy foods. Unhealthy products are specifically targeted toward the global South in the search for new markets.
