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  Structural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article outlines the various forces shaping change at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recommends various changes within the IMF.The first force springs from pressure in increasing the IMF's surveillance function, giving it new responsibilities to monitor and advise governments on financial sector restructuring and enabling it to operate as a quasi-lender of last resort.The sec
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  Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000

  The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.
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  Economists and power at the World Bank

  Development Information Update, 2000

  This article discusses some of the conflicts existing between the different economic approaches within multilateral organisations such as the World Bank (WB) and, to a lesser degree, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article explores the decisive schools of thought that play a central role in WB initiatives.
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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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  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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  The World Bank and privatisation: a flawed development tool

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2000

  This paper analyses the orthodox approach to privatisation in low-income countries particularly in Africa as promoted by the WB. The article shows that privatisation has attracted over-optimistic expectations when it comes to development, based on unrealistic assumptions.
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  100 percent debt cancellation?: a response from the World Bank and IMF

  World Bank, 2001

  This short report, produced by IMF and World Bank, considers the implications of proposals to cancel 100 percent of multilateral debt.The report:sets debt relief in the context of a broad strategy to fight povertylooks at the existing approach to poor country debt relief through the HIPC Initiativeturns to the fundamental question of what would be gained by such a proposall
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  Investing in People: The World Bank in Action

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1996

  Investing in people — through education, health, nutrition, and other aspects of human development — is crucial in the struggle to raise living standards and reduce poverty in the developing world. Helping countries in this vital work is at the heart of what the World Bank does, through its financial and other assistance.
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  Reforming Institutions for Service Delivery: A Framework for Development Assistance with an Application to the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio [of the World Bank]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Argues for greater "institutional pluralism" in how the World Bank does business in the infrastructure, rural, and social sectors.
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  Becoming a knowledge bank? The World Bank’s emerging approach to knowledge, partnership and development in the time of globalisation

  Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh, 2000

  The World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, has committed his organisation to becoming a knowledge bank in the most visible example of development cooperation agency concern with the effects of new knowledge debates on their existing ways of working.

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