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Around half of the population lives below the poverty line, one in six children die before the age of five, and almost one-third of the population will not live until the age of forty. These human welfare indicators are the culmination of almost two decades of slow […] View resource Discussion paper The IMF, the World Bank, and Economic Policy in Bosnia 01/01/1998 1 documents 78 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Finance World Bank and IMF Overview This paper considers the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic policy-making in post-war Bosnia, after the signing of the Dayton Agreement. The author reviews the political economic and social constraints on policy, the relations between the international financial institutions and the authorities in the region, assesses Bosnia’s debt situation, and the […] View resource Book A Case for Reform: Fifty years of the IMF and World Bank 01/01/1995 1 documents 63 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Finance World Bank and IMF Overview The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund dominate the economic policies of many of the world’s poorest countries. Fifty years after they were created, what impact are these institutions having on ordinary people’s lives? A Case for Reform argues that the time has now come for a fundamental review of their policies and a […] View resource Journal article Struggles over patriarchal structural adjustment in Tanzania 01/10/1993 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Finance GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview Structural adjustment policies (SAPs) have undone recent social and economic progress in Tanzania. Huge foreign debt – paid for by the poorest people – remains. This article explains the steady disempowerment of Zambian women, from reduced access to education and health services and employment, to the takeover of female-controlled food crops by male-dominated cash cropping. […] View resource Journal article Filipino women demand freedom from debt 01/10/1993 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Finance GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender-based violence Overview Filipino women are fighting back against unrecognised household work, underpaid income-earning employment, the burden of foreign debt, and debt repayment conditionality’s. One important initiative is the Women’s Committee within the ‘Freedom from Debt Coalition’. The latter works for sustainable development, and the former ensures that gender issues are integrated into all its policies. The author […] View resource Book Jamaica Debt and Poverty 01/01/1992 6 documents 81 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Finance Overview Jamaica’s mounting external debt problems throughout the 1980s, and the associated package of structural adjustment measures which the international lenders insisted on, gave rise to a rapidly deteriorating situation for many people in Jamaica, especially the poorest. Jamaica: Debt and Poverty examines the origins of Jamaica’s debt problems in both the structure of the Jamaican […] View resource Book The Philippines: Debt and Poverty 01/01/1991 3 documents 121 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Finance Natural resources Participation Social protection Overview How could the Philippines, a country rich in natural and human resources, find itself by 1990 in the position of the sixth most indebted nation in the world? Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo traces the origins of the nation’s debt crisis, and – with evidence from projects supported by Oxfam – she illustrates the social and environmental impact […] View resource Book Free Front Line Africa 01/01/1991 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Overview Oxfam has been working with people in southern Africa since the early 1960s – providing support for their efforts to improve the quality of their lives. During the last decade their efforts have been undermined by a growing debt crisis, falling prices for their exports, the lack of effective international aid, and, in many cases, […] View resource Book Zambia Debt & Poverty 01/01/1989 1 documents 73 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Debt Finance World Bank and IMF Overview Zambia Debt and Poverty examines the origins of Zambia’s debt and the circumstances of the break with the International Monetary Fund from the particular perspective of the poor of Zambia. The authors discuss the crisis in terms of its human costs and describe what some of Oxfam’s partners are doing to combat the growing poverty. View resource Book For Richer For Poorer: An Oxfam report on western connections with world hunger 01/01/1986 1 documents 105 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Finance Overview For Richer For Poorer investigates how the debt crisis and economic policies of the world’s wealthier nations are creating mounting poverty in the Third World. Examples from Oxfam’s work illustrate how poor people are coping with the effects of policies decided thousands of miles away. View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 4 Page 5 Spotted an error? Let us know