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Review of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.DocumentDebt sustainability in low-income countries: proposal for an operational framework and policy implications
International Monetary Fund, 2004This paper develops an operational framework for debt sustainability assessments in low-income countries and draws policy implications for donors, creditors, and borrowers.DocumentTo lend or to grant?: a critical view of the IMF and World Bank’s proposed approach to debt sustainability analyses for low-income countries
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004This paper critiques a new framework to debt sustainability developed by the IMF.It welcomes elements of the new approach:the HIPC Initiative’s debt-to-exports criterion, was a weak predictor of future debt sustainability.DocumentTreacherous conditions: how IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development
World Development Movement, 2003This report analyses recent initiatives for debt relief led by the World Bank and the IMF, such as the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, and the conditionalities associated to them.DocumentThe crisis that was not prevented: lessons for Argentina, the IMF, and globalisation
Forum on Debt and Development, 2003This book provides an overview of the current thinking about the Argentine crisis and reveals the limitations of the so-called "Washington Consensus". The book results from the international research project Global Financial Governance Initiative, which brings together Northern and Southern perspectives on key international financial issues.DocumentThe IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine
Oxfam, 1999Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.DocumentStruggling to be heard: democratising the World Bank and the IMF
Christian Aid, 2003This report analyses the structure and activities of the the World Bank and the IMF and makes recommendations on how they should change in order to be more effective.DocumentCan the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?
Jubilee Research, 2003This report employs financial analysis to argue that both the IMF and the World Bank have enough resources to cancel all the HIPC debt, and argues that they could finance this debt cancellation without jeopardising their normal operations.DocumentShould the IMF cease long term lending?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002As a long-term lender to low-income countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also tackles problems of poverty and growth. Should the IMF withdraw from development finance leaving it up to donors and the World Bank, as critics suggest? Is it appropriate for the Fund to return to its traditional role?DocumentThe IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?Pages
