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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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  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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  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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  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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