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The Role of International Financial Institutions in the Current Global Economy, Address to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank
World Bank, 1998DocumentAre there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997DocumentGrowth may be good for the poor: but are IMF and World Bank policies good for growth?: a closer look at the World Bank's most recent defense of its policies
Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2000The WB paper claims that "growth generally does benefit the poor and that anyone who cares about the poor should favor the growth-enhancing polices of good rule of law, fiscal discipline, and openness to international trade." This CEPR’s report claims that the data from the paper do not support this conclusion.Conclusions include:economic growth in the developing world, excludinDocumentThe World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package
Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).DocumentSAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs
Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment programDocumentThe effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty
Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?DocumentTrends in private sector development in World Bank education projects
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000This article explores trends in private sector development in World Bank education projects.The principle underlying trends in Bank education projects is that strengthening the private sector's role in noncompulsory education over time will release public resources for the compulsory (primary) level.DocumentA foresight and policy study of the multilateral development banks
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000The report looks at the current pressures on the MDBs to reform their and re-target their operations.DocumentYear 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank
Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.DocumentA critical review of the World Bank report: World Development Report 2000/2001: attacking poverty
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2000Collection of indepth articles, produced by Norwegian researchers critically reviewing the World Development Report 2000/2001 (WDR).The introduction to the reviews indicates that the WDR presents itself as a document based on scientific knowledge. The research group has taken this position seriously and treated it as such.Pages