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Governance of the Amman water utility

01/02/2008

12 pages long

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In 1993 the World Bank assisted the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Jordan in updating a review of the water sector, and thus began the process of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in service provision to improve the efficiency of the water sector and wastewater services. In this article, the privatisation of water and wastewater […]

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Briefing note

Blind Spot: The continuing failure of the World Bank and IMF to fully assess the impact of their advice on poor people

01/09/2007

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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It seems impossible that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) would give advice to developing countries without fully considering how it might affect the lives of poor people. Yet, despite it being a long-stated policy of both institutions to do so, and some recent progress on the part of the IMF, they are […]

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Research report

Labour Legislation and Waged Agricultural Workers: Policy advice by the World Bank

01/09/2007

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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This report attempts to summarise World Bank’s approach and policy advice regarding labour legislation in the Agriculture sector of six different countries, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Morocco and Chile which were selected as country cases by the Oxfam International Labour Rights team. The report identifies the ‘cautious’ and the ‘less cautious’ approach employed by the […]

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Journal article

Knowledge management’: a case study of the World Bank’s research department

01/08/2007

8 pages long

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This article looks at ‘knowledge management’, using a case study of the World Bank’s research department, located in the Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC). Despite the Bank’s presentation of its research arm as conducting ‘rigorous and objective’ work, the author finds that the Bank’s ‘knowledge management’ involves research that has tended to reinforce the dominant […]

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Journal article

Social capital

01/08/2007

8 pages long

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In parallel with, and as a complement to, globalisation, ‘social capital’ has enjoyed a meteoric rise across the social sciences over the last two decades. Not surprisingly, it has been particularly prominent across development studies, not least through heavy promotion by the World Bank. As a concept, though, as has been argued persistently by a […]

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Journal article

‘Good governance’: the itinerary of an idea

01/08/2007

2 pages long

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The concept of good governance originated among African scholars in relation to state-society relations in Africa, expressing the concern that these be developmental, democratic, and socially inclusive. The term has since been taken up by the international development business – in particular the World Bank – and used by them as a new label for […]

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Journal article

‘Country ownership’: a term whose time has gone

01/08/2007

5 pages long

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The term ‘country ownership’ refers to a property of the conditionality attached to programmes, processes, plans, or strategies involving both a ‘domestic’ party (generally a nation state) and a foreign party (generally the IMF, the World Bank, the Regional Development Banks, and other multilateral and bilateral institutions). Under what circumstances and how can the concept […]

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Journal article

Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?

01/02/2007

13 pages long

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Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?

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Gender inequality is now widely acknowledged as an important factor in the spread and entrenchment of poverty. This article examines the World Development Report 2000/01 as the World Bank’s blueprint for addressing poverty in the twenty-first century, together with several more recent Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), with a view to analysing the manner in […]

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Briefing paper

Kicking the Habit: How the World Bank and the IMF are still addicted to attaching economic policy conditions to aid

01/11/2006

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Despite numerous commitments to reform, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are still using their aid to make developing countries implement inappropriate economic policies, with the tacit approval of rich-country governments. These economic policy conditions undermine national policy-making, delay aid flows, and often fail to deliver for poor people. If the world […]

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Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

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On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

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