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Searching with a thematic focus on Structural adjustment policies, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt, Poverty

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  Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999

  Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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  International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

  International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000

  Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
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  Education for All: a compact for Africa

  Oxfam, 1999

  Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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  Incomes and Poverty in Rural Zimbabwe During Adjustment: The Case of Shindi Ward, Chivi Communal Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1999

  As the 1990s have progressed, there have been increasing concerns expressed about the effects of the structural adjustment programme in Zimbabwe, both from within and outside the country.
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  Basic service for all?: public spending and the social dimensions of poverty

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000

  The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe water and sanitation.The report outlines a Ten Point Agenda for Action to bridge the US$80 billion gap, including a call for an international agreement that no more
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  The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

  Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000

  The 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).
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  SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000

  This 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 program
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  External shocks, financial crises, and poverty in developing countries

  World Bank, 2000

  This chapter ('External Shocks, Financial Crises and Poverty in Developing Countries'), of the World Bank report on 'Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries':Reviews evidence about the impact on poverty of the external shocks and volatility to which developing countries are exposedPresents and assesses evidence of the impact of the 1997-98 financial crisis on poverty, in the
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  The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000

  Paper 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?

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