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The World Bank criticises this phenomenon, referred to as ‘frontloading’, claiming that it damages the […] View resource Journal article Canterbury to Cameroon: a new partnership between faiths and the World Bank 01/08/2005 8 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Finance World Bank and IMF Overview The World Bank and world religions are two of the most powerful forces in the developing world. The Bank has access to vast financial resources, while faiths have vast social access and credibility. Partnership between the Bank and religious groups could have a significant impact on development efforts, but dialogue between them appears impotent. That […] View resource Issue briefing Oxfam International Submission to World Bank Review of Conditionality, May 2005 14/06/2005 1 documents 5 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines World Bank and IMF Overview Oxfam International welcomes the World Bank’s decision to review its conditionality practice in 2005. Reforming the way conditionality is designed and applied is critical to improving aid effectiveness, and orienting the aid system as a whole to meet the Millennium Development Goals. However, for the review to make a real difference to the way the […] View resource Journal article The World Bank’s land of kiosks: Community driven development in Timor-Leste 01/06/2005 7 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Reconstruction World Bank and IMF Overview The World Bank’s Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project (CEP) was the key donor programme to assist with community reconstruction in a newly independent Timor-Leste. Commencing in 2000, the US$18 million project provided funds to over 400 local development councils that had been newly created to meet their community’s development needs. Rather than creating genuine […] View resource Briefing paper Undervaluing Teachers: IMF policies squeeze Zambia’s education system 27/09/2004 1 documents 23 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Education financing MDGs Millenium Development Goals World Bank and IMF Overview Zambia is a country on the brink. One in 5 people are infected with HIV, life expectancy has dropped to 33 years and young people aged 20-25 actually have less education than their parents’ generation. Therefore, the achievement of Zambia’s new government in getting more children into school holds out a critical glimmer of hope. […] View resource Journal article Women, trade, and migration 01/07/2004 7 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Migration World Bank and IMF Overview The impact of modern trade policies on the position of women across the world has produced a growing literature in recent years. This has largely concentrated on analyses of the impact on women of privatisation and trade liberalisation during the course of the past two decades. There has been increased interest on the part of […] View resource Briefing paper Made at Home: British homeworkers in the global supply chain 06/05/2004 1 documents 38 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Labour standards Livelihoods World Bank and IMF Overview No minimum wage, no sick pay, no maternity leave, no redundancy pay, forced overtime, no health and safety checks: this is the story of women around the world working to supply British supermarkets and retailers – the story told by Oxfam International in the report Trading Away Our Rights. It is the story of how […] View resource Journal article Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion 01/11/2003 8 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods World Bank and IMF Overview This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […] View resource Briefing paper Education for All Fast Track: The No-Progress Report 11/09/2003 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Education financing World Bank and IMF Overview The EFA Fast Track Initiative is a ground-breaking compact between rich and poor countries, which aims to close the education financing gap in countries that implement far-reaching reforms. In April 2003, the World Bank’s Development Committee requested a progress report on the FTI in time for their meeting in Dubai. They will not get one, […] View resource Briefing paper The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries 01/09/2003 1 documents 35 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance MDGs Millenium Development Goals World Bank and IMF Overview The IMF needs to radically change the way it works in low income countries. It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs. If it does this it can play a vital, proactive and dynamic role as […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 … Page 8 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know