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SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs
Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000This 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 programDocumentThe effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty
Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?DocumentYear 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank
Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000Globalization 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.DocumentStructural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure
Bretton Woods Project, 2001This 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 secDocumentAdjustment debate leaves World Bank behind
Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000The 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.DocumentEconomists and power at the World Bank
Development Information Update, 2000This article discusses some of the conflicts existing between the different economic approaches within multilateral organisations such as the World Bank (WB) and, to a lesser degree, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article explores the decisive schools of thought that play a central role in WB initiatives.DocumentOverstretched and underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions
Bretton Woods Project, 2001This paper follows in the wake of a World Bank ’s restructuring and strategic planning process, which became publicly visible when the press caught onto a leaked memo expressing Bank staff dissatisfaction.DocumentStructural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations
World Bank, 2001This article looks into the effect structural adjustment has had on forest resources. The article indicates that structural adjustment operations have often been controversial because they are explicitly political.Document100 percent debt cancellation?: a response from the World Bank and IMF
World Bank, 2001This short report, produced by IMF and World Bank, considers the implications of proposals to cancel 100 percent of multilateral debt.The report:sets debt relief in the context of a broad strategy to fight povertylooks at the existing approach to poor country debt relief through the HIPC Initiativeturns to the fundamental question of what would be gained by such a proposallDocumentThe new IMF focus on poverty: are hopes warranted?
World Economy, Ecology and Development, 2000This article finds that: the concern for the poor in Third World countries shown by the IMF is primarily a response to criticism of its policy recommendations, which has grown increasingly louder over the past years combined with its meager success in improving growth, the IMF has been criticized even by former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz for sticking to itPages