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  The World Bank and the environment in the Caspian: a case study of the Kolkheti National Park

  BankWatch, 2002

  This report focuses on the construction of an oil terminal and related infrastructure inside one of Georgia’s national parks. The World Bank has a positive environmental objective in helping to finance the establishment of the Kolkheti National Park but this, the authors claim, is being undermined by the private development of the Kulevi Oil Terminal.
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  Delivering on debt relief: from IMF gold to a new aid architecture

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  Over the last several years,the United States and other major donor countries have supported a historic initiative to write down the official debts of a group of heavily indebted poor countries,or HIPCs.Donor countries had two primary goals in supporting debt relief: to reduce countries’ debt burdens to levels that would allow them to achieve sustainable growth; and to promote a new way of assi
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  New World Bank reports confirm that the HIPC initiative is failing

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  Analysis of two recent World Bank reports to assess how the HIPC initiative is progressing using the Bank's own criteria.
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  Governance of the World Bank

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  Looks at the governance structure of the Bank, the evolution of the share position and voting rights of member countries and at how countries are represented through constituencies and on the Bank Board.It also looks at the relationship of the Bank with the other Multilateral Development Banks and the IMF, and compares the governance structures of the various institutions.It concludes by o
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  Risky business: how the World Bank’s insurance arm fails the poor and harms the environment

  Friends of the Earth, 2002

  This report provides basic information about the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)does, and assesses its record of supporting environmentally damaging, developmentally dubious projects. It gives an overview of MIGA’s current activities, membership, funding sources, recent growth, and role within the larger political risk insurance industry.
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  The unbreakable link: debt relief and the millennium development goals

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  This report tracks the progress of poor countries towards debt sustainability under the HIPC initiative; as well as likely progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The article concludes that:the British Chancellor’s welcome proposal for an increase in OECD aid by $50bn a year will prove ineffectual in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the HIPC countri
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  Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy.
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  Good governance and aid effectiveness: the World Bank and conditionality

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This article assesses the Bank's approach for promoting good governance in developing countries. It argues that the Bank's use of traditional approaches to strengthen good governance in developing countries is misguided.The paper outlines the concept of good governance as defined by the World Bank and others.
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  Economic debacle in Argentina: the IMF strikes again

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2002

  The article explores the recent economic crises in Argentina.The article finds that:not long ago, Argentina was the poster-child for the conservative economic policies pushed by the IMFArgentina's current problems are all the more severe because, in the name of fighting inflation, in the early 1990s the government created a "currency board,"although the IMF pumped in additional
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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.

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