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  The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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  The World Bank and privatisation: a flawed development tool?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Does privatisation effectively encourage development and reduce poverty? Should the World Bank’s approach to privatisation be re- examined? Research by the University of Greenwich analyses the fundamental areas of privatisation policy and practice, focusing in particular on Africa, where the World Bank has keenly supported privatisation in many countries.
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  Does the IMF know best? Jamaica's response to financial crisis

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In recent decades post-liberalisation financial crises have destabilised least developed and transitional economies. Are international financial institutions any good at helping vulnerable economies ride out the turbulence? Is the IMF’s prescriptive advice based on sound analysis? Should countries in crisis do as they are told or themselves chart the path back to recovery?
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  United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

  World Bank, 2001

  The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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  Do PRSPs empower poor countries and disempower the World Bank, or is it the other way round?

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper explores the players involved in the PRSP process, how far programmes change as a result and what proportion of IFI-affected decision-making is covered by the PRSPs.
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  World Bank involvement in the privatisation of public pension systems in developing and transition countries

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2003

  Over the last decade, more than a dozen countries in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe have partially or completely replaced public pay-as-you-go pension systems with funded systems managed by private financial institutions. The World Bank has been a major catalyst for this shift, providing loans and technical support.
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  Do IMF-supported programs help make fiscal adjustment more durable?

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper investigates fiscal developments in 112 countries during the 1990s to discover whether IMF-supported programmes help make fiscal adjustment more durable.It finds that, while the overall fiscal balance improved in most of them, the composition of this improvement differed.
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  Does IMF fiscal policy advice end up hurting the poor?

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This transcript of an IMF Economic Forum addresses the question of whether the IMF's advice on fiscal policy reduces growth and increases poverty in developing countries.Participants discuss the IMF rationale for its fiscal policy advice - particularly during financial crises - and the IMF view on the impact of its advice on growth and poverty.
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  The IMF-World Bank plan for Sri Lanka: will it help or hinder South Asian success?

  Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2003

  Paper critical of the PRSP process in Sri Lanka arguing that the draft document as it stands could lead to a reversal of Sri Lanka’s impressive record on economic growth and social development and that the process through which the PRSP was drafted and approved raises serious questions about the opportunities for public input.In three areas in particular - privatization, land law reform, and la
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  Options for democratising the World Bank and IMF

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This paper from Christian Aid examines the issue of IFI governance in the run up to the 2003 spring meetings of the Bank and IMF. The analysis takes as its starting point the fundamental right to representation and argues that better representation of the poorest countries at the IMF and World Bank would lead to more appropriate, and better informed, decision-making and ownership.

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