| Pollution Pusher, Pollution Trader The World Bank in 1998 |
According to a June 1997 report by the Institute for Policy Studies and the International Trade Information Service, investments made by the World Bank are playing a significant role in fueling climate change. |
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| Fast Track Derail New IMF Funding |
To judge from the tactic he has chosen to try to secure a staggering $18 billion for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the wake of the East Asian bailouts, it looks like President Clinton has learned one major lesson from the Congressional defeat of "fast-track" negotiating authority for international trade agreements. That lesson is that the American public has gotten a whiff of the kind of global economy he wants, and they don’t like it. |
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| 50 Years Is Enough Network |
There is a lot of talk about the coming of the new millennium. It's like we can't help ourselves — we look back and we look forward. Within the 50 Years Is Enough Network, we are doing the same. |
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| The Jubilee 2000/USA Campaign |
In April 1997, the Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF (RWG) launched the Jubilee 2000/USA Campaign. The 50 Years Is Enough Network is a founding supporter and steering committee member of the campaign. |
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| One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Gender Equity at the World Bank |
Just released! Gender Equity and the
World Bank Group: A Post-Beijing Assessment, a collaborative
effort of 50 Years Is Enough and the Women's Eyes on the World Bank
Campaign. The report analyzes the effectiveness of a wide variety
of World Bank tools, programs and policies for "mainstreaming"
gender across sectors and loan types. |
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| "Investment-Led" Adjustments for Africa |
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (IPS) - Structural adjustment programmes
(SAPs) in Africa largely have failed to create new jobs or thriving
economies and ‘'investment-led'' strategies are needed where
the state plays a leading role, says a new U.N. report. |
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| The Making of Deadly Embrace |
In the early 1990s, the people of La Primavera, Nicaragua
gathered at their community center to speak out against economic
injustices in their neighborhood and country. From that meeting
came the idea of making a video showing how neo-liberalism, structural
adjustment, debt and free trade look through the eyes of Nicaraguans.
The goal of the video was to provide an organizing tool to help
rekindle and redirect the work of solidarity groups to fighting
the menace presented by structural adjustment. |
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| Energizing a Worldwide Movement |
50 Years Is Enough has joined with 1000 civil society organizations
worldwide to support the launching of the Structural Adjustment
Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI), an initiative of citizens'
organizations in conjunction with the World Bank and governments
to assess — through gender inclusive, participatory processes
— the impact of structural adjustment programs (SAPs). Officially
launched in Washington on 14 July 1997, the purpose of SAPRI is
to identify and set the stage for appropriate changes in adjustment
operations and programs and for more participatory and effective
economic-policymaking processes. |
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| MAI: NAFTA on Steroids |
It's been called "NAFTA on Steroids." It's been called
an investor's Bill of Rights. It's been called the most significant
economic agreement of the last 50 years.
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| Tax the World Bank |
Washington, DC is notorious for pothole-ridden streets,
pockets of deep poverty with few reliable services, and, at the
root of it all, a city government mired in financial and political
bankruptcy. Amidst this virtual decay, within six blocks of the
White House, sit some 25 buildings occupied wholly or in part
by the World Bank and its nearly ten thousand Washington-based
employees. |
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