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    International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

    International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
    Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
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    Basic service for all?: public spending and the social dimensions of poverty

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
    The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe water and sanitation.The report outlines a Ten Point Agenda for Action to bridge the US$80 billion gap, including a call for an international agreement that no more
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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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    SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment program
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    Debt relief and poverty reduction: meeting the challenge

    Oxfam, 1999
    For almost two decades unsustainable debt has undermined human development in many of the world's poorest countries. It remains a profound threat to the efforts of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) to achieve the international development targets set for the year 2015. This paper is intended as a contribution to the next phase of reform of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative.
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    Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

    Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000
    Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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    Aid, exports and growth in Ghana

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2001
    A number of recent cross-country studies have revitalised the debate on the effectiveness of aid. While there is mounting evidence that aid does contribute to growth, there is some dispute as to whether good policy is a necessary condition for aid effectiveness.This paper is a contribution to the literature, providing a time series study of Ghana.
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    IMF structural conditionality: how much is too much?

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 2001
    This article discusses the role of structural policies in IMF-supported adjustment programs. The article looks at ways the IMF can simplify conditionality, in order to make it more effective.The article outlines various approaches to streamlining fund structural policy conditionality:structural pre-conditions.
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    Structural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This article outlines the various forces shaping change at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recommends various changes within the IMF.The first force springs from pressure in increasing the IMF's surveillance function, giving it new responsibilities to monitor and advise governments on financial sector restructuring and enabling it to operate as a quasi-lender of last resort.The sec
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    Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.

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