ity. The new president of
> Eletrobras has complained of the "destatization" of the neo-liberal
> agenda -- and talks of the symbolism of ending the constraint on
> government investment.
>
> This while the staffers at the WB still publish "studies" about how
and talks of the symbolism of ending the constraint on
government investment.
This while the staffers at the WB still publish "studies" about how
(not whether) privatization can work. Studies which are unaware of much
of the literature. Maybe the word hasn't trickled down yet.
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Why eyes are on Brazil
David de Ferranti and Vinod Thomas IHT
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
A new model of growth
BRASILIA Call it the Brasília consensus. President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva, who began his term as president of Brazil on the first of
[god bless moral hazard.]
[New York Times]
December 2, 2003
World Bank Again Giving Large Loans to Indonesia
By JANE PERLEZ
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 1 - After several years of reduced support
because of government corruption, the World Bank has decided to increase
its loans to Indonesia, eve
Caspian Sea Oil Pipeline Wins World Bank Loan
By Peter Behr
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 4, 2003; 4:00 PM
A planned 1,100-mile pipeline to carry oil from the Caspian Sea toward
world markets won a $125 million loan commitment from a World Bank funding
unit today. The Internation
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/654/re3.htm
Dubious in Dubai
Regional conflicts have undermined participation in the upcoming World
Bank and IMF meeting. Mohamed Darwish reports from Dubai
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Dubai 2003
Organising Committee are all worried about
> . . . Although Iraq does not have any outstanding loans from the IMF,
> it does have arrears of close to $72 million.
I don't believe that figure. How are those arrears accounted for ? Are these
arrears owing to the IMF ? One thing I have noticed is that there are some
mighty peculiar forms of a
Take a look at how the United Nations is helping the
IMF/WB/"Donors"/Multinationals, as well as the US government,
privatize Iraq.
US activists should be working with Belgian, Spanish, and other
European activists to protest the UN/IMF/WB preparatory conference in
Brussels on September
In Johannesburg, we drink water tainted by WB-supported corruption,
which included a false promise to fund the investigation and
prosecution into Lesotho Highlands Water Project dam-related bribery.
A couple of years ago, the Bank even gave a green light to more work
by Acres Int'l and Lah
- Original Message -
From: "Eugene Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Does anybody know if the WB publishes the blacklisted corporations? The
> list is only "...nearly 100 companies and individuals .. " Pathetically
> short list, but
Does anybody know if the WB publishes the blacklisted corporations? The
list is only "...nearly 100 companies and individuals .. " Pathetically
short list, but I'd like to see it.
Gene Coyle
Eubulides wrote:
World Bank Focused on Fighting Corruption
Graft and Bribery, Once Tole
The WB fights retail corruption, not wholesale corruption.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
World Bank Focused on Fighting Corruption
Graft and Bribery, Once Tolerated, Punished by Blacklisting
By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 4, 2003; Page E01
Once upon a time, World Bank financiers viewed their mission in narrow
terms: Lend money to poor countries to try to
>From the combined lists of globalizethis.org
+++ please forward this important info! +
QUARANTINE CORPORATE RULE WITH NON-VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION
CONFRONT THE IMF/WB IN WASHINGTON DC SEPT 28-29, 2002
Stop the corporate greed epidemic!
Info for affinity groups joining the Sept 28th M
please circulate widely
Call to Action!
September 25th - 29th in Washington, DC
STOP Infectious Corporate Greed!
CONFRONT Corporate Evil-doers at their CEO Summit!
QUARANTINE the World Bank and IMF on Saturday, September 28th
Get Plugged-in at www.globalizethis.com or call 202-452-5912
The
How to keep even one small country free of the chains of IMF
debt??
Forwarded from Stop IMF email list, these are the campaigning efforts of
the East Timor Action Network below.
But is East Timor right to refuse loans?
Cruel though the workings of a currency board might be, would i
U.S.-Europe Clash Stalls World Bank Aid Plan
Bush Seeks Grants, Not Loans, for Poor
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 16, 2002; Page E01
A plan to increase World Bank aid to poor countries has
stalled because of a dispute between the United States
and European c
[Good to know how the "other side" thinks]
< http://www.foreignaffairs.org/articles/Einhorn0901.html >
The World Bank's Mission Creep
By Jessica Einhorn
Jessica Einhorn is former Managing Director of the World Bank and is
now a consultant at Clark & Weinstock.
LESS IS MORE
The World Bank and th
e Observer (London) August
21, 2001
IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential
adviser to
the wrong side of the barricades
By Gregory Palast
It was like a scene out of Le Carré: the brilliant agent comes i
South, the overall balance is net
negative.
=
Hmmm. Pity. Whatever, supposedly treating the economists of the WB like
they actually treat their victims is a nice thought. But the tenor of
the public critique is that the bank is straying from the purity of the
Anne Krueger/Larry Summers economi
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 01:13PM >>>
>
> If , in fact, LTCM was not allowed to take the fall when its bet
failed , then it did not take a risk initially. Risk means that a
chance is taken of a negative outcome. If when the negative outcome
arises, the "risktaker" is not required to suff
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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > CB: If ex post it didn't take the risk, then it didn't take the
> risk. The ex ante risk was an illusion.
> ===
> No. That's too teleological and smacks of post hoc ergo prompter hoc
>
>
>
> CB: The philosophi
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 04:17PM >>>
>
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 02:12PM >>>
>
> > ((
> >
> > CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
> zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
> "rewarded" the most of all because it claim
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:34:57 +0300
> From: "Michael Keaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If Wolfensohn really is inflicting such "damage" on the World Bank,
> should he not get some sort of PEN-L award in recognition?
Nah. Since whatever excellent destruction of that institution's
Ian Murray reports:
The September/October issue of Foreign Policy carries an investigative
piece that is sharply critical of World Bank President James D.
Wolfensohn's style of personalized management and costly embrace of
trendy ideas.
=
Such "trendy ideas" include the notion that Cuban he
WORLD BANK BONDS BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2001
CONTACT: Neil Watkins 202-299-0020 or Carolyn
Bninski 303-444-6981
As DC Demonstrations Against World Bank Approach,
Boulder City Council Adopts World Bank Bonds
Boycott
City Joins 4 Municipalities, 12 Unions, 10
Investm
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From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16187] Re: WB
> At 11:02 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >To his critics, Wolfensohn has promoted favorites,
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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16184] Re: WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again-
!!??
>
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01
At 11:02 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>To his critics, Wolfensohn has promoted favorites, ignoring bank
>regulations on staff advancement and prompting talentedsenior staff to
>leave. They also say he has caved in to New Age economic fads and
>interest groups, sacrificing the bank's intellectua
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 02:12PM >>>
> ((
>
> CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
"rewarded" the most of all because it claims to take risk.
>
> (((
===
Ex ante it took the risk.
> ((
>
> CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
"rewarded" the most of all because it claims to take risk.
>
> (((
===
Ex ante it took the risk. Ex post, the risk was diffused. Socialism of
[WashingtonPost]
World Bank Leader Receives A Critical Accounting
By Nora Boustany
Wednesday, August 22, 2001; Page A14
The September/October issue of Foreign Policy carries an investigative
piece that is sharply critical of World Bank President James D.
Wolfensohn's style of personalized manage
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 04:00AM >>>
Spinoza and Marx would love the above; if the CB can create $ ex
nihilo and risk is ultimately going to be socialized then what is the
justification for the allocation of the rewards to those who don't
bear the risks because they can displace them o
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From: "Steve Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ian,
>
> Really, you can't back down now... you were the one who introduced
the piece
> by referring to "reconstruction", after all.
=
What? No playful provacativeness in the headers anymore? :
Steve Diamond wrote:
>
> Re:
>
> Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
>
> Bill Maurer..
>
> [snip]
Who is Bill Maurer? In what post from whom was he introduced? What is
this post about?
Carrol
> At 21/08/01 21:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
>
> >He does go into how one
> >material medium's relation to time--paper--affected the bundling of
> >asset streams and how computer programs for bundling, unbundling
and
> >rebundling in the quest for the dream of liquidity and mar
Ian,
Really, you can't back down now... you were the one who introduced the piece
by referring to "reconstruction", after all.
In any case, let's look at what Maurer himself says: since he thinks
finance "discourse" is not understandable on its own terms -
"Securitization, thus, is not obvious
At 21/08/01 21:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
>He does go into how one
>material medium's relation to time--paper--affected the bundling of
>asset streams and how computer programs for bundling, unbundling and
>rebundling in the quest for the dream of liquidity and market clearing
>
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16149] WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again -
!!??
> Re:
>
> Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-
Re:
Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
Bill Maurer..
God forbid that postmodernism should try to take on global finance. I don't
know who this guy is, but he doesn't know a lot about the global capital
markets. For example, "securitization" and "secu
Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
Bill Maurer
Recent debates on globalization are frequently thin with details of
the mechanisms that facilitate the flow of capital across borders.
What on-the-ground, back-office practices constitute and expedite
those flows?
[from Doug's house]
[from the World Bank's daily clipping service]
LITTLE COMMON GROUND FOR GLOBALIZATION DEBATE.
The proposed debate next month, between four anti-globalization
non-governmental
organizations on one side and the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank
on the other, may s
D.C. Police Brace for Next Month's IMF Protests
By Arthur Santana
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 17, 2001; 1:07 PM
D.C. police are bracing for as many as 100,000 protesters at next
month's World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, Police
Chief Charles H. Ramsey said thi
2 notes. There is one small error in this article:
it's the World Bank Board meeting on the Tanzania
PRSP where we have the leaked minutes, not the IMF
board meeting.
Also, Schuerch is lying when he says that U.S. law
does not apply because the PRSP is not a "loan"
document. The law says "loan"
ledging that they've done a good
job, and it doesn't embarrass me to do it. ...We just have nothing to do
with them in the present sense, and they should be congratulated on what
they've done."
=
Look out for more press reports concerning the disintegration of WB staff
mo
Here, most ironically, is an article from what I believe is a reliable
source extolling the WB's extolling of Cuban education and health
indicators... Steve
Inter Press Service
Finance: Learn from Cuba, says World Bank
by Jim Lobe
Washington, 30 Apr -- World Bank President James Wolfensohn M
At 28/04/01 19:31 -0700, you wrote:
>I hope that my fellow socialists will respond positively to this call from my
>fellow anarchists.
>
>Best,
>Sabri
>
>
>
>**POST FAR AND WIDE**
>
>Revolutionaries of the World - organize and converge on Washington, DC!
>
>Between October 2nd and 4th
to descend on Washington to disrupt
the IMF/WB meetings in solidarity with revolutionary movements throughout
the world. We envision a joyous festival of resistance in the spirit of
Seattle and Prague that will bring these meetings to a halt.
Anarchists from the east coast are currently organizing
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From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: [stop-imf] ACTION ALERT: ASK CONGRESS TO
STOP IMF/WB OBSTRUCTION OF MOZAMBIQUE'SDEVELOPMENT
ACTION ALERT
Tuesday, March 27
Recent repo
Pen-l:
Bad and getting worse in the occupied territories and Arab East Jerusalem.
Seth
From: MER - NewsFlash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "MER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cousin of Sen Lieberman Kidnapped in WB - Jewish Settler Attacks
Against P
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From: Robert Naiman
To: Robert Naiman
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:40 PM
Subject: [waggers] PLEASE ACT: Abolition of IMF/WB "user fees" on primary
health and education blocked by U.S. Treasury
Many of you are -- hopefully -- aware that one o
All,
Express your opposition to the authorities' attempt to weaken the
anti-IMF/WB protests in DC.
Seth Sandronksy
> URGENT ACTION ALERT
>
> Washington DC Mayor Anthony Williams
>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>tel: +1.202.727.1620
>fax: +1.202.727.0505
>
&g
Here's something of related interest. See http://www.gdnet.org
II. GDN2000 Conference in Tokyo, Mark Your Calendars
---
Another result of Lyn's trip to Japan is that we can now announce some
preliminary details concerning the GDN2000 conference i
Today's NY TIMES business section has an interesting article by Jeffrey
Madrick (editor of CHALLENGE magazine) on the need for democracy and its
positive effects on economic development that sheds a favorable light on
the protests against the IMF/Word Bank. It's not on their web-site yet.
Jim
Hi All,
Could some kind soul please point me in the direction of a source for the
AFL-CIO's official position on the anti-IMF/WB protests next month in DC?
Please reply off list.
Seth Sandronsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
__
Get Your Pr
With all the demos being organized against the IMF/WB, and many student
teach-ins ahead, I wondered if anyone had put together (or could quickly
do so) a good basic reading list of critical, contemporary books and
articles on the two institutions.
Thanks,
Marty
This loan is a drop in the bucket, but it has taken on symbolic
importance. Summers, following the lead of his predecessor, opposed that
loan on political grounds.
This is an example of bogus issues, but even if one grant Summers and
company the benefit of th doubt on the sincerity of their oppos
Malaysia snubs World Bank loan, cancels IMF meeting
Move comes after World Bank chief meets Anwar's
wife
From Eddie Toh in Langkawi
ALAYSIA has snubbed a US$300 million
(S$513.2 million)
For those dreaming of good cop (Stiglitz) pissing on bad cop
(Camdessus), here's some evidence of a change in the wind:
World Bank report, 3/11/98:
Thailand: Recent Economic Developments
CONTENT:
The stabilization measures introduced in Thailand since the floating of
the Baht
Forwarded message:
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 30 18:02:53 1998
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Subject: Re: impact of IMF/WB/structural adjustment on Middle East countr
I have not read enough of and about Stiglitz but the very fact he was
addressing WIDER in Helsinki should give us a clue (a deduction of sorts
from the subject header). WIDER is peopled by the left of all stripes but
certainly quite left if Washingtonians are concerned (exclude me I live in
the ot
Maybe I missed something, but this speech seems consistent with
the World Bank's traditional role as good cop to the IMF's bad
cop.
When Stiglitz says that "we do not have all the answers" he
may provide a rhetorical opening for alternatives. He also
acknowledges a number of critiques that
Many thanks to Patrick Bond for posting the speech by Stiglitz. It's an
important read, I think. There's a lot off good stuff here, as well as
a lot of not-so-good stuff. (Naturally, I was a bit irritated to read
his account at the end of the tradeoff between environmental quality and
popular p
> --- Forwarded Message Follows ---
>
> Government as a Complement to Markets
> So far I have been discussing the ways in which the Washington
> Consensus on the issues of macroeconomic stabilization, financial
> reform, liberalized trade, and privatization, was insufficient. It
> contain
> --- Forwarded Message Follows ---
>
> Financial Reform
> The importance of building robust financial systems goes beyond simply
> averting economic crises. I have sometimes likened the financial
> system to the "brain" of the economy. It plays an important role in
> collecting and aggra
> MORE INSTRUMENTS AND BROADER GOALS:
> Moving Toward the Post-Washington
> Consensus
>
> Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
> The World Bank
> January 7, 1998
> The 1998 WIDER Annual Lecture (Helsinki, Finland)
>
> Today I would like to discuss improvements in our unders
Has anyone seen the January 1998 paper by Joe Stiglitz upending the
Washington Consensus? (The speech in Finland that, tellingly, isn't on
the World Bank homepage.)
In South Africa, the WB mission maintains a hard neo-lib edge. Several
of us here are wondering whether the merits of his mod
On 12 Dec 96 at 14:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 96-12-12 11:30:17 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max B. Sawicky)
> writes:
> >JS has been a big disappointment to we nouveau-classicals (I've
> >started my own school of thought, with an enrollment of one), >
> >MS
>
> would you like
In addition to _Whither Socialism_, there's Stiglit's _Peasant
versus the State_ (or something like that), and his AER article on
"Markets, Market Failure, and Development". I haven't read either, but
the first sounds like its in line with the current "LDC governments are
exploiting t
In a message dated 96-12-12 11:30:17 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max B. Sawicky)
writes:
>JS has been a big disappointment to we nouveau-classicals (I've
>started my own school of thought, with an enrollment of one), >
>MS
would you like some feminist analysis for your school of one?:)
maggie
Good question. I had presumed that it was in Pigou's
_Economics of Welfare_, 1922, but I could not find it in
there. It does not seem to be in my copy of Marshall
either, nor does it appear in Schumpeter's 1954, _History
of Economic Analysis_, nor even in Richard Musgrave
standard pub
> On 11 Dec 96 at 6:57, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > I was fascinated by the news that Joseph Stiglitz will become chief
> > economist of the World Bank. Can someone tell me what Stiglitz'
> > qualifications for this job are? What does he know about, and what has his
> > work contributed to, econ
On 11 Dec 96 at 6:57, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I was fascinated by the news that Joseph Stiglitz will become chief
> economist of the World Bank. Can someone tell me what Stiglitz'
> qualifications for this job are? What does he know about, and what has his
> work contributed to, economic developmen
Not to let him off the hook, but I was impressed with some of Stiglitz's
kind words regarding the success of collective enterprise in China in
. The book as a whole is a corrective to privatization
mania, from within new keynesian discourse...
Thad
At 02:13 PM 12/11/96 -0800, Rosser Jr, John Bar
Does anyone know the exact origin of the term "externalities"? I ask
because I'm struck by the etymological symmetry of this term and Marx's
"entausserung," which is usually rendered "alienation" but is literally
externalization. (Entausserung is Marx's main term for alienation in
Capital; i
Doug is essentially correct. Although JS might be
marginally friendlier to LDCs than LS, they are essentially
centrist New Keynesian peas in a pod, and pals to boot,
coming out of similar environments and reflecting similar
methodological and ideological perspectives.
My contacts at
Has Stigiltz's replacement at the CEA been announced?
At 11:48 AM 12/11/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>one possible point in J. Stiglitz's favor: hasn't he written a
>book that argues that a rapid transition from a centrally-planned
>economy to a full-scale market economy is a bad idea? or am I
>reading book jackets incorrectly?
Yeah, and Summers (c
in a strange way, i think the answer is yes. third world countries do not
understand that dealing with the wb and imf means:
1. stripping their lands of natural resources
2. creating a burgeoning debt without requisite industrialization to pay it
off.
[am typing single handed, hence no caps
> Date sent: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:48:48 -0800 (PST)
> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:7823] Stiglitz to WB
> one possible point in J. Sti
one possible point in J. Stiglitz's favor: hasn't he written a
book that argues that a rapid transition from a centrally-planned
economy to a full-scale market economy is a bad idea? or am I
reading book jackets incorrectly?
always judging books by their covers,
;-)
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim
>
>Doug writes questioning Stigs appointment to the WB:
>are the probems of the third world the result of
>information asymetry?
well after 14 years or so of SAPs the WB probably thinks it has finally rid
itself of the Third World and if it hasn't quite done the job then it
Obviously this is a political payoff appointment. He
can be counted on to spout the administration line at WB,
whatever that might be.
He does have some publications in some prestigious
journals on development issues, particularly in regard to
landlord/tenant issues in rural areas
Doug writes: >are the probems of the third world the result of
>information asymetry?
Yea, Doug: They know more about the US than the US does about them.
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
I was fascinated by the news that Joseph Stiglitz will become chief
economist of the World Bank. Can someone tell me what Stiglitz'
qualifications for this job are? What does he know about, and what has his
work contributed to, economic development and poverty reduction? Are the
problems of the Th
Because I wanted you to have premier...
Visit of WB president J.Wolfensohn to the Institute of Social Studies,
Den Haag, 24th October 1996.
A `non-objective' briefing.
JW made an initial speech of some 20 min., which was followed by a
question and answer session. He performed quite
Hi Pen-L folks,
The WB president, Wolfesohn, is paying a visit to our institute this
Thursday 24th October. WHY US
First, some background info, and below a query (if you do not have
time after so many postings these days, please go directly to the
'query' at the end of t
Many thanks to Alex for taking the trouble to translate
the report on the World Bank meeting. I found it of
great interest. I also feel there is material there
for a contemporary comedy.
Marianne Brun
il Pen-l'ers do a rapid
course in Spanish :-)
Salud,
Alex
This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of
Accion Zapatista de Austin.
La Jornada 4 de octubre de 1996
The WB-IMF meeting concludes with an appeal for `social equity'.
Jim Cason y David Bro
At 1:51 PM 10/7/96, Robert R Naiman wrote:
>I would like to know exactly what the WB officials are saying. Are
>there any pusblished/printed sources available? Journal or newspaper
>articles?
Here's an article that I can't read, but maybe you or someone else can. One
of
es on new WB line re poverty?
Date: Monday, October 07, 1996 1:51PM
I would like to know exactly what the WB officials are saying. Are
there any pusblished/printed sources available? Journal or newspaper
articles?
___
Robert Naiman
1821 W. Cullerton
Chicago Il 60608
I would like to know exactly what the WB officials are saying. Are
there any pusblished/printed sources available? Journal or newspaper
articles?
___
Robert Naiman
1821 W. Cullerton
Chicago Il 60608-2716
(h) 312-421-1776
Urban Planning and Policy (M/C 348)
1007
The IMF is absolutely making such suggestions, though the WB isn't so
much. See for example the chapter on labor market reforms proposed for
the EU in the May 1994 issue of the Fund's World Economic Outlook. In a
phrase, the recommendation is - become more American!
An interesting
We would like to know, if the IMF or WB are making recommendations on
labour market and social policy _within_ the G7 countries. If there exists
such recommendations or articles on this issue, please tell us how we can
get it.
In Solidarity, Ulf
--
Arbeitslosenselbsthilfe Oldenburg (ALSO
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