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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, 2003

  This 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.
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  Debt sustainability in low-income countries: proposal for an operational framework and policy implications

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  This paper develops an operational framework for debt sustainability assessments in low-income countries and draws policy implications for donors, creditors, and borrowers.
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  To 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, 2004

  This 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.
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  Treacherous conditions: how IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development

  World Development Movement, 2003

  This 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.
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  The crisis that was not prevented: lessons for Argentina, the IMF, and globalisation

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2003

  This 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.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared 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.
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  Struggling to be heard: democratising the World Bank and the IMF

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This 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.
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  Can the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This 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.
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  Should the IMF cease long term lending?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As 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?
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  The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why 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?

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