A new report summarises some of the continued challenges for participatory poverty reduction processes.
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Go with the Flows? Capital Account Liberalisation and Poverty
April 2001 report from the Bretton Woods Project and Oxfam. Examines the links between capital account liberalisation (CAL) and poverty reduction, including how CAL affects government spending, the delivery of social services, access to credit for small businesses and households, and general opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.
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Oh no, O’Neill
New US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill has indicated his scepticism that IMF bail-out packages can deal effectively with financial crises.
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Social legacy of Indonesia’s crisis
A new pamphlet from UNICEF details the social legacy of Indonesia’s financial crisis.
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Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra
A week-long “listening tour” brought World Bank President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst K
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Health policy attacked
The People’s Health Conference 2000 criticized the World Bank’s health policies for being “anti-Third World”.
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UK government launches globalisation strategy
The UK white paper on globalization - endorsed by the entire UK Government - was published in December.
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Loans for El Salvador emergency
The World Bank was accused of “behaving like vultures, like loan sharks” by US NGO 50 Years is Enough Campaign after it offered to help finance emergency relief efforts in El Salvador in the wake of January’s earthquake.
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Dakar 2000: from resistance to alternatives
In December a meeting of campaigners in Dakar, Senegal assessed Africa’s debt crisis and the human effects of structural adjustment.
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New “Net the debt” site
OneWorld has launched DebtChannel.org, a global portal site on international debt.
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At the 80th anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, global civil society must maintain pressure on the Brazilian and South African G20 presidencies to ensure the forth Financing for Development Conference in 2025 results in urgently required international financial architecture reform.