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  Zambia- condemned to debt: how the IMF and World Bank have undermined development

  World Development Movement, 2004

  With a focus on Zambia, this report intends to explore the conditions that the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have attached to loans, and more recently debt relief.The report finds that:the economic influence wielded by the IMF and World Bank and the dogmatic free market approach to economic policy of these two powerful institutions, contributed to Zambia’s economic declin
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  Impoverishing a continent: the World Bank and the IMF in Africa

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2004

  This paper critically assess IMF and World Bank policies of the last decades. In doing so the paper highlights the dominance of the U.S. within the IMF and World Bank.
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  The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: an independent evaluation of the World Bank’s support through 2003

  World Bank, 2004

  The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative aims to make World Bank aid more effective in reducing poverty.
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  Blocking progress: how the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This ActionAid briefing explores how International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan conditions to developing countries are undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS. The author argues that the global community is ready to scale-up levels of foreign aid to help poorer countries finance the much needed greater public spending to fight HIV/AIDS.
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Commitments: youth reproductive health, the World Bank, and the Millennium Development Goals

  The Global Health Council, 2004

  This report from the Global Health Council argues that improving the reproductive health of youth is key to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and reducing poverty. It also highlights the World Bank’s vital role in these efforts. Links are made between each youth reproductive health issue and the goal or goals which it affects.
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  World Bank protecting the vulnerable: the design and implementation of effective safety nets – health insurance for informal sector workers

  World Bank, 2003

  This World Bank paper explores the challenges of providing health insurance in the informal sector and recommends strategies to improve coverage for informal sector workers.
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  Devolution in Pakistan: overview of the ADB/DfID/World Bank study

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004

  Pakistan's Devolution of Power Plan was introduced in 2000, creating a decentralised structure of district and sub-district governments , each with its own Nazim and Naib Nazim (mayor and deputy mayor), elected council and administration. This report reviews the first 3 years of operation and finds uneven but encouraging progress on most fronts.
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  Who’s taking risks?: how the World Bank pushes private infrastructure and finds resistance in some surprising places

  Citizens Network on Essential Services, USA, 2004

  This paper looks at efforts of the World Bank to increase private investment in infrastructure projects in the risky markets in developing countries through the promotion of a range of new instruments called fiscal supports. These guarantees and subsidies help to ensure corporate profitability can pose serious risks and costs for taxpayers.
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  The IMF and the Indonesian crisis

  Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, 2004

  This paper considers the reasons for the seriousness of the Indonesian currency crisis of 1997-98, and the appropriateness of the IMF response, and offers suggestions for how the crisis could have been better handled.

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