All the articles
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Famine in Africa: Unelected and unaccountable
25 May 2004 - by Charlotte Denny
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have assumed the role of assisting the poorer nations, but now their policies are being criticised for being unhelpful and out of date Pick up a copy of the local newspaper in most African (...) -
IMF critics denounce selection of Rato as new chief
5 May 2004 - by The 50 Years Is Enough Network
WASHINGTON, DC - May 4 2004 - The 50 Years Is Enough Network, a coalition of over 200 U.S. organizations dedicated to the fundamental transformation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, issued the following statement (...) -
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Commentary on land and rural development policies of the World Bank
28 April 2004 - by Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Reaching the Poor: the new strategy for rural development 3. Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction: the Land Policy Research Report 4. Growth: always in first place 5. Land privatization (...) -
Rwanda: the financiers of the genocide
12 April 2004 - by Eric Toussaint
The 1994 genocide Ten years ago, beginning on 7 April 1994, within a period of three months, more than one million Rwandans - the exact figure has yet to be determined - were exterminated because they were Tutsis or thought to be. Several (...) -
Dogmatic Development: Privatisation and conditionalities in six countries
7 April 2004 - by War on Want, PSIRU
This report looks at how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services. It focuses specifically on the sectors of water, electricity, and (...) -
The World Bank and IMF at sixty: plus ça change?
7 April 2004 - by Bretton Woods Project
Sixty years after their founding, the World Bank and IMF remain the dominant institutions in development but face determined opposition to their role in shaping globalisation. Bank president James Wolfensohn says that critics should stop “going (...) -
We Dream A World: Resisting & Surviving Six Decades of the IMF & World Bank
5 April 2004 - by Soren Ambrose, Njoki Njoroge Njehu
During the 60th anniversary year, we are going to be exposing again the record of the IMF and the World Bank, the institutions which have, at the direction of the wealthiest governments — especially the United States government — created and (...) -
Activists Target IMF, World Bank on Their 60th Birthday
4 April 2004 - by Soren Ambrose
The internet is again buzzing with talk of protest. The targets are many in 2004: the Democratic convention in Boston in July; the Republican convention in New York City in September; the Group of 8 industrialized countries meeting off the coast (...) -
The Use of Rwanda’s External Debt (1990-1994) - The Responsibility of Donors and Creditors
4 April 2004 - by Michel Chossudovsky, Pierre Galand
Ten years after the 1994 Genocide, the role of financial institutions has to be fully understood. Development aid and foreign loans were channelled towards financing the military and paramilitary. The donors turned a blind eye. This report (...) -
Jubilee South at the World Social Forum 2004
1 April 2004 - by Jubilee South
The World Social Forum is counted by Jubilee South (JS) as among the critical international events for the articulation of analysis of the debt problem and for gathering the strengths and resources of debt organizations and movements to pursue (...) -
World Social Forum 2004 - Mumbai, India
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Call to Action - Washington April 21-25, 2004
We reproduce here the ’50 years is enough’ network call to action against the IMF & the World Bank semi-annual meetings. International Days of Action Against the IMF & the World Bank: April 16 - 25, 2004 Call to Action for Mobilization (...) -
Globalisation - Reality, Resistances & Alternatives
30 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint
Hegemonic forces drive the process of globalisation and economic globalisation must be clearly distinguished from internationalism. The changes brought about in the process have been rapid, massive and qualitative. The phenomenon is growing (...) -
Interview with Joseph Stiglitz
The Hospital that makes you sicker
24 March 2004 - by New Internationalist
Developing countries were being told: “There is no debate. There is no other way.” It was intellectually dishonest. -
World Bank and ADB’s Role in Privatizing Water in Asia
12 March 2004 - by P. Raja Siregar
Extending access to clean water for the poor and improving water management has, in fact, been used as the main campaign of the World Bank and as the basis for ADB’s water policies. Unfortunately, these very water policies already spell more harm (...) -
The World Bank’s Land of Kiosk: ’Community Driven Development" in East Timor
12 March 2004 - by Ben Moxham
As the dust cleared in the aftermath of the Indonesian military orchestrated chaos following the August 30th, 1999 vote for independence, the World Bank arrived ... While the UN focused on elections, law and order and creating an interim (...) -
Bankrupt Africa
12 March 2004 - by Patrick Bond
Debt peonage continues, courtesy of Washington, Monterrey and NEPAD. -
Beside World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai
India facing the challenge of globalisation
11 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint, Denise Comanne
Beside World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai, five snapshots on the Indian reality. -
World Bank / IMF / WTO Trio
8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint
The World Bank and the IMF formed a duo that took upon itself both to impose neo-liberal discipline on the indebted countries. The control mechanism was reinforced with the creation of the World Trade (...) -
The odious debt of Russia, the new oligarchs and the Bretton Woods institutions
8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint
The IMF and the World Bank got Russia into debt. A large part of the money lent has been embezzled and is back in the West. Western bankers, Russian oligarchs and government officials got rich while the impoverished Russian citizens have to foot (...)
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