Latin American countries are giving the World Bank and the IMF the boot.
Filed in: Argentina Brazil Economics Ecuador IMF Latin America Paraguay Venezuela World Bank
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Gabon
Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by per-capita income is just useless. It is oil-rich and yet half the population lives below the poverty line. World Bank/IMF strictures are doing their part to help keep it that way.
Filed in: Gabon IMF Oil Poverty World Bank
- Hugues Desormaux
- July 1, 2006
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Junk the WTO!
They shouted it in Hong Kong. But why is the organization so hated?
Filed in: Fair Trade IMF Trade WTO World Bank
- April 1, 2006
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Polyp's Big Bad World – July 2005
A bedtime story from the IMF Book of Fairytales.
Filed in: Economics Globalization IMF
- Polyp
- July 1, 2005
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Wild West goes East
Long-standing World Bank consultant Peter Griffiths blows the whistle on the damage done, from Russia to Sierra Leone.
Filed in: IMF Russia Sierra Leone World Bank
- Peter Griffiths
- March 1, 2004
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The Hospital that makes you Sicker
The IMF is run by free-market fundamentalists, says former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz.
Filed in: IMF World Bank
- March 1, 2004
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...Imagine That!
Adam Ma’anit steps towards a world without the IMF and the World Bank.
Filed in: IMF Structural Adjustment World Bank
- Adam Ma'anit
- March 1, 2004
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States of Unrest
Resistance to economic ‘adjustment’ is growing with every passing year, as this worldwide round-up shows.
Filed in: Argentina IMF Indonesia Korea, South Pakistan Paraguay Resistance Romania Senegal Structural Adjustment Turkey World Bank Zambia
- March 1, 2004
- 0
Structurally Adjust This...
Adam Ma’anit gives the Bank and the Fund a taste of their own medicine.
Filed in: IMF Structural Adjustment World Bank
- Adam Ma'anit
- March 1, 2004
- 1
The Power and the Folly
The IMF and the World Bank are the 21st century equivalent of colonial governors, argues Chris Brazier.
Filed in: IMF Poverty Structural Adjustment Wealth World Bank
- Chris Brazier
- March 1, 2004
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