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  Emerging from a debt trap in a crisis-ridden country: lessons from Zimbabwe

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Is Zimbabwe's experience symptomatic of a structural adjustment programme (SAP) or is simply a result of 'local' mismanagement? This paper attempts to show that, while the last of these reasons predominates, there are lessons to be drawn by a wider audience. Paper reviews the origins of the debt problem in Zimbabwe, and considers whether Zimbabwean debt is sustainable.
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  Structural adjustment and health: a literature review of the debate, its role-players and presented empirical evidence

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001

  This article discusses the relationship between health and structural adjustment programs.
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  Role of the IMF: financing and its interactions with adjustment and surveillance

  International Monetary Fund, 1999
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  Guidelines for fiscal adjustment (IMF)

  International Monetary Fund, 1999
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  MIGA in Africa

  Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, 2005

  The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is part of the World Bank Group, mitigating political risks to investments through:GuaranteesCurrency inconvertibility and transfer restrictionsExpropriationWar and civil disturbanceBreach of contractDispute mediation servicesMIGA also provides technical assistance to governments and online information on investment o
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  Social dimensions of adjustment: a general assessment

  Information Bank on African Development Studies, 1999
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  Energy price increases in developing countries : case studies of Malaysia,Indonesia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Colombia and Turkey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Six case studies show that raising energy prices to eliminate subsidies does not harm the poor, growth, inflation, or industrial competitiveness. And public revenues improve.When domestic energy prices in developing countries fall below opportunity costs, price increases are recommended to conserve fiscal revenue and to ensure efficient use of resources.
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  The role of commercial banks in enterprise restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  In Central and Eastern Europe, banks are less active than planned in enterprise restructuring. Corporate restructuring is not normally a major part of commercial banking --- to ask banks to restructure their weakest clients is to direct attention away from lending to their strongest clients, which should be their core business.
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  The surge in capital inflows to developing countries : prospects and policy response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Foreign interest rates have been the "push" factor driving capital inflows and determining their magnitude, but country creditworthiness has influenced the timing and geographic destination of the new capital flows.
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  Sustainability of private capital flows to developing countries : is ageneralized reversal likely?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Developing countries that undertake adequate domestic reform should continue to expect capital inflows, despite recent events in Mexico and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's raising of interest rates during 1994.Since 1989, private capital flows to a select group of developing countries have increased sharply, but developments in 1994 have caused concern about the sustainability of those flows.

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