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    Campaign against the IMF, World Bank and structural adjustment

    Essential Information, 2001
    Contains a series of fact sheets and resources, taking a generally critical position on IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment activities and policies.The fact sheets include:how Structural Adjustment worsens povertyhow the IMF helped create and worsen the Asian financial crisisthe IMF, the World Bank, and the HIV/AIDS crisishow Structural Adjustment destroys the environme
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    The World Bank

    Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001
    This article finds that:the World Bank’s Articles of Agreement (its charter) require that it lend only for productive purposesthe bank’s nature and practice ensure that its projects will have a high failure ratehe bank promotes risktaking, but only for its borrowerKey criticisms of the World Bankthe World Bank has power without responsibilityborrowers are driven
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    Structural adjustment programs & poverty reduction strategy

    Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001
    This article looks at the relationship between the US, the World Bank and developing countries, focusing particularly on the role of Structural Adjustment Policies applied by the World BankThis article finds that:the U.S. uses its dominant role in the global economy and in the IFIs to impose SAPs on developing countries and open up their markets to competition from U.S.
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    Afghanistan and Central Asia: priorities for reconstruction and development

    International Crisis Group, 2001
    This article discusses the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan, and means of ensuring stability and security.The article recommends that:donors should adopt a regional approach, tackling development, drugs and security problems not just in Afghanistan but in the neighbouring countries as welldonors should establish a coordinated set of trust funds that will allow rapid disbursemen
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    Many dollars, any change?: executive summary

    European Network on Debt and Development, 2001
    In this two-part paper the authors focus on two areas that are integral to the poverty reduction debate. The first part looks at the role of donors and creditors in influencing the shape of countries’ strategies for poverty reduction, and how this can inhibit the emergence of a greater degree of ‘ownership’.
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    The World Bank's experience with post-conflict reconstruction

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999
    Assessment of the Bank's experience in post-conflict reconstruction, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Uganda, Cambodia, Eritrea, Haiti, Lebanon, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka.
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    African development in the context of new world trade and financial regimes: the role of the WTO and its relationship to the World Bank and the IMF

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2000
    This paper analyses of the recent evolution of the world's trade and financial regimes from a primarily African perspective and makes the case that African development prospects could be improved through the improved functioning of the World Bank, IMF and WTO and coordination between them.The paper explores the role of external sector policies in African development, provides a review of the Af
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    Finance and Development (IMF)

    International Monetary Fund, 1999
    Quarterly journal from the IMF, reporting on IMF research and news. Inlcudes section focusing on a newsworthy topic.
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    Role of the IMF: financing and its interactions with adjustment and surveillance

    International Monetary Fund, 1999
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    The World Bank and the IMF: how do they differ? (IMF)

    International Monetary Fund, 1999

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