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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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  Good governance and aid effectiveness: the World Bank and conditionality

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This article assesses the Bank's approach for promoting good governance in developing countries. It argues that the Bank's use of traditional approaches to strengthen good governance in developing countries is misguided.The paper outlines the concept of good governance as defined by the World Bank and others.
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  The policy roots of economic crisis and poverty: a multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2001

  The report documents a systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate productive employment at a living wage.
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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.
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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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  Structural adjustment programs & poverty reduction strategy

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This article looks at the relationship between the US, the World Bank and developing countries, focusing particularly on the role of Structural Adjustment Policies applied by the World BankThis article finds that:the U.S. uses its dominant role in the global economy and in the IFIs to impose SAPs on developing countries and open up their markets to competition from U.S.
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  Afghanistan and Central Asia: priorities for reconstruction and development

  International Crisis Group, 2001

  This article discusses the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan, and means of ensuring stability and security.The article recommends that:donors should adopt a regional approach, tackling development, drugs and security problems not just in Afghanistan but in the neighbouring countries as welldonors should establish a coordinated set of trust funds that will allow rapid disbursemen
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  Many dollars, any change?: executive summary

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2001

  In this two-part paper the authors focus on two areas that are integral to the poverty reduction debate. The first part looks at the role of donors and creditors in influencing the shape of countries’ strategies for poverty reduction, and how this can inhibit the emergence of a greater degree of ‘ownership’.
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  Reconstruction from war in Africa: communities, entrepreneurs, and states

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This article looks at the move from conflict to reconstruction and then onto sustainable development, within an African context.It finds that:aid donors, NGOs, and international business can do much to help or hinder this processunless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth will be poverty reducingcommunities cannot prosper unless

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