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    The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

    Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002
    This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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    The policy roots of economic crisis and poverty: a multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2001
    The report documents a systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate productive employment at a living wage.
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    Does globalization help the poor?

    Alternet, 2002
    This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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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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    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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    Policies to roll-back the State and privatise?: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers investigated

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The findings in this report are based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.The report concludes that:across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papersgovernment ownership of PRSPs is weak
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    Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: analysis and recommendations on LDC debt

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper addresses the question how large the debt burden of LDCs actually is and how this burden affects the LDCs path to social and economic development. It describes current efforts to reduce the debt burden.
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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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    Unsustainable debt burden and poverty in Pakistan: a case for enhancing HIPC initiative

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper examines the unsustainable debt burden of Pakistan. It discusses the external debt burden of Pakistan and compares Pakistan’s debt burden with the other developing countries including heavily indebted poor countries.
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    Debt dynamics and contingency financing: theoretical reappraisal of the HIPC initiative

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The objective of this paper is to examine debt dynamics of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). Paper examines the conditions of debt sustainability and reviews other key concepts of debt dynamics, such as 'liquidity problem' and 'insolvency condition'.

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