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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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  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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  The IMF and good governance

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This article finds that:the IMF was created to solve short-term, external imbalances in national economies but has moved far beyond its original mandatethe IMF makes decisions with major implications for poor countries yet lacks the expertise to provide far-reaching policy prescriptions.
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  Putting poverty reduction first: why a poverty approach to debt sustainability must be adopted

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2001

  According to EURODAD the current HIPC initiative will not go far enough in changing the poverty situation of HIPCs because it does not take into consideration the resources these countries need for poverty-reducing expenditures and for spurring growth.
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  It takes two to tango: creditor co-responsibility for Argentina’s crisis and the need for independent resolution

  Jubilee Research, 2001

  The article finds that:the Argentinian foreign debt repayment situation is so serious, that Argentina can be considered to be effectively insolventArgentina's creditors must expect to take lossesbillions of dollars of private debts were nationalised and incorporated as Argentina public debt during the military regimethese debts make up a substantial element of Argentina's total
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  On the pitfalls of measuring aid

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This paper makes a thorough assessment of the methodology used to measure aid in general, and Official Development Assistance (ODA) in particular.
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  New approaches to development co-operation: what can we learn from experience with implementing sector wide approaches?

  Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2000

  Sector wide approaches (SWAps) are one of a number of recent innovations in aid practice which respond to lessons learned in the long history of development co-operation.
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  The external debt burden and government allocation for health expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This paper provides evidence on the impact of potentially binding debt servicing on health expenditures.The paper finds that debt service exerts a negative effect on health expenditure. Furthermore, debt service is observed to be the most potent explanatory variable of health expenditure among the non-time variables in the model.
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  Debt issues in Africa: thinking beyond the HIPC initiative to solving structural problems

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Will the debt problem be over if the HIPIC initiative is fully successful and managed to write-off all debt that owed to Africa?This paper examines the historical origin of African debt and the structural problems the continent is confronted with. The literature about the origins of the African debt crisis lists a number of factors as its cause.

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