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    Overstretched and underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This paper follows in the wake of a World Bank ’s restructuring and strategic planning process, which became publicly visible when the press caught onto a leaked memo expressing Bank staff dissatisfaction.
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    Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

    World Bank, 2001
    This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.
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    Ownership and conditionality

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    This speech was given before the IMF International Policy Dialogue conference.The speech indicates that:the IMF is moving to a more focused approach to conditionality to increase its effectiveness while giving maximum scope for national ownershipunder this approach, policy reforms that are critical for a program to achieve its macroeconomic objectives will be included under conditio
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    Structural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations

    World Bank, 2001
    This article looks into the effect structural adjustment has had on forest resources. The article indicates that structural adjustment operations have often been controversial because they are explicitly political.
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    Intellectual property needs and expectations of traditional knowledge holders

    World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000
    This Report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge (TK).The first section of the chapter "Framing the Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders " provides a basic and general introduction to
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    PRSPs: should they carry a health warning?

    International Poverty Health Network, 2001
    This article investigates whether the World Bank and IMF's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have been successful or not.The article indicates that:there has been criticism that there has been a lack of local ownership in the PRSP generation processthere has often been little, or occasionally no, participationalthough monitoring of the quality of participation in PRSPs i
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    Environmental policy and international trade

    Brookings Institution, 1995
    This paper explores the empirical link between environmental policy and international trade. Using an estimated global simulation model, the paper focusses on the extent to which international trade flows are redirected as a result of unilateral versus multilateral taxes on the emission of carbon dioxide.
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    Protecting the Poor During Adjustment (World Bank)

    HNPFLASH, 1999
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    The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.
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    Is Ethiopia's debt sustainable?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The international development community has begun to recognize that options aimed at providing debt relief to countries where debt is not sustainable need to be seriously explored. When is debt not sustainable?

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