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  What did structural adjustment adjust?: the association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  This paper analyses some particular characteristics of IMF and World Bank adjustment loans and attempts to explain the relationship between adjustment policies and growth in developing countries. In particular, this study considers the repetition of adjustment loans to the same country not effective at generating the growth necessary to service the debt.
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  Structural adjustment, civil society and national cohesion in Africa

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  National cohesion and how the perceived roles and transformation of civil society under Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) have impacted on the chronic problem of statehood in Africa is an often neglected aspect of the politics of adjustment, but confronted in this paper.The first section presents an overview of the concept of civil society in the World Bank's perspective of SAP.
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  Structural adjustment, education and poor households in India: analysis of a sample survey

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 1999

  Rapid globalisation and fast paced technological progress across the globe present new challenges for India with gradual opening up of its economy to international competition. The amount and the quality of education and skills that India possess are becoming critical factors in taking advantage of the rapid technological transformation and the transition to a more open economy.
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  Survival of small-scale manufacturing in Cairo during structural adjustment results from a long-term study

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000

  The structural adjustment policy in Egypt has caused a dramatic decline in demand for many goods produced in the handicraft sector.Through this study, it has become clear that small-scale manufacturing in Cairo is able to survive even in times of deteriorating economic conditions and growing competition from expanding modern industry.The major advantage of these small enterprises lies in the
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  Structural adjustment in the name of the poor: the PRSP experience in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam

  Focus on the Global South, 2002

  Critique of the PRSP process globally, with commentary on initial experiences in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam.The report questions the quantity and quaility of consultation in the 3 countries, highlighting: limited time given to consultationmediation of participation through structures controlled by government and large institutionsGovernment policy was being re-directed to
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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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  Greening the Bretton Woods institutions

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This looks at how the U.S. should adopt new foreign policy to influence World Bank and IMF strategic activities in a positive manner.This article finds that:the IMF and World Bank have failed to integrate environmental sustainability into their lending, concentrating instead on export-led exploitation of natural resources.
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  Policies to roll-back the State and privatise?: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers investigated

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  The findings in this report are based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.The report concludes that:across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papersgovernment ownership of PRSPs is weak
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  Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: analysis and recommendations on LDC debt

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Paper addresses the question how large the debt burden of LDCs actually is and how this burden affects the LDCs path to social and economic development. It describes current efforts to reduce the debt burden.
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  Emerging from a debt trap in a crisis-ridden country: lessons from Zimbabwe

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Is Zimbabwe's experience symptomatic of a structural adjustment programme (SAP) or is simply a result of 'local' mismanagement? This paper attempts to show that, while the last of these reasons predominates, there are lessons to be drawn by a wider audience. Paper reviews the origins of the debt problem in Zimbabwe, and considers whether Zimbabwean debt is sustainable.

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