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Activists Target IMF, World Bank on Their 60^th 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
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 (...)
Anne Krueger, the White Knight of globalisation

8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF: “Our central role is to facilitate the process of globalization. In a very real sense, that is what we exist for”.
Enron and Co. - the fiasco of the new USA-style economy

1 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

Twenty years of deregulation and market liberalization on a planetary scale have eliminated all the safety barriers that might have prevented the cascade effect of crises of the Enron type.
NGOs File Civil Lawsuit Against Govt’s Pro-IMF Policies

1 March 2004 - by Urip Hudiono

Three non-governmental organizations filed a lawsuit against President Megawati Soekarnoputri on Thursday at the Central Jakarta District Court for issuing Presidential Instruction No. 5/2003 on an economic policy package with International (...)
Argentina

The Human Face Of Economics

1 March 2004 - by Ann Scholl , Facundo Arrizabalaga

... It is time to recognize these debts as odious, instead of creating more hunger, more deaths and more ’economic’ terror ...
Doing nothing for Ethiopia

A briefing by Jubilee Research at New Economics Foundation

This briefing is produced by Jubilee Research — 20 years after Live Aid, and one year after Ethiopia’s worst drought in history. We explain how G7 creditors, having promised substantial debt relief, have stalled the disbursement of relief, and are (...)
Free Market Corruption, Neo-liberal Pretexts

Poor People Can’t Be Engineers

Newsweek recently ran an article on money laundering in Latin America. It identified Nicaragua’s ex-President Arnoldo Aleman as one of a super-corrupt elite along with Mexico’s Carlos Salinas and Guatemala’s Alfonso Portillo. But, these individuals (...)
Argentine President Faces Off With IMF

25 February 2004 - by Roger Burbach

President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina is emerging as the leading nemesis of the International Monetary Fund and the private financial speculators in South America ...

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