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  Social development in World Bank operations: results and way forward

  World Bank, 2004

  This consultation paper outlines a draft strategy to guide the World Bank’s efforts to mainstream social development considerations across its activities.
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  Review of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003

  This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
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  Debt sustainability in low-income countries: proposal for an operational framework and policy implications

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  This paper develops an operational framework for debt sustainability assessments in low-income countries and draws policy implications for donors, creditors, and borrowers.
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  To lend or to grant?: a critical view of the IMF and World Bank’s proposed approach to debt sustainability analyses for low-income countries

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper critiques a new framework to debt sustainability developed by the IMF.It welcomes elements of the new approach:the HIPC Initiative’s debt-to-exports criterion, was a weak predictor of future debt sustainability.
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  Treacherous conditions: how IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development

  World Development Movement, 2003

  This report analyses recent initiatives for debt relief led by the World Bank and the IMF, such as the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, and the conditionalities associated to them.
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  The crisis that was not prevented: lessons for Argentina, the IMF, and globalisation

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2003

  This book provides an overview of the current thinking about the Argentine crisis and reveals the limitations of the so-called "Washington Consensus". The book results from the international research project Global Financial Governance Initiative, which brings together Northern and Southern perspectives on key international financial issues.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Draft issues paper for an evaluation of technical assistance provided by the IMF

  Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, 2003

  This issues paper sets out the direction for an IEO evaluation of technical assistance (TA) provided by the IMF with the purpose of deriving operational recommendations that can enhance its contribution to the overall IMF mandate.
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  International lending of last resort and moral hazard: a model of IMF's catalytic finance

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2003

  This paper presents an analytical framework to study the consequences of official liquidity provision to countries experiencing balance of payment problems by international institutions such as the IMF.It argues that such provision of liquidity is usually seen as involving a trade-off between two distinct effects:catalytic effects on the behavior of international financial markets, as t
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  Struggling to be heard: democratising the World Bank and the IMF

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This report analyses the structure and activities of the the World Bank and the IMF and makes recommendations on how they should change in order to be more effective.

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