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Jubilee Research at New Economics Foundation, successor Jubilee 2000 UK, Drop the Debt, supporters Bono U2, Bob Geldof, Youssou Ndour, Thom Yorke. Jubilee 2000 international campaign mobilised 24 million people to cancel unpayable debts of the poorest countries. 1999 Cologne G8 Summit, world leaders agreed to cancel $100bn. Jubilee Research, director Ann Pettifor, provides analysis and data on ...

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Overseas Private Investment Corporation is an independent self-sustaining U.S. Government agency that sells political risk insurance and project financing to encourage private investment by U.S. companies in some 140 emerging economies around the world.

Welcome to the Joint Bank-Fund Library Network. These fourteen World Bank and International Monetary Fund libraries work together to provide information services and resources to World Bank and IMF staff. We hope this site will help answer your questions about publicly available library resources.

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Whirledbank.org - The Whirled Bank Group offers commentary, advice, history and an online banking to the citizens of the world, the World Bank, overdeveloped countries and more than 100 developing countries and countries in transition ...

BRIE is a small, interdisciplinary research project at the University of California at Berkeley that works on issues of technology and the international economy to analyze real-world problems and offer path-breaking positions that challenge conventional economic policy-making.

International Monetary Fund: Facts, policies, research and perspectives on the IMF.

International Economics Gateway at Alta Plana, a consultancy for Internet and database architecture, design, and development.

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This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into the effectiveness of the IMF-imposed Structural Adjustment Policies and how this has exacerbated poverty.

The International Economics Network is an annotated, selective portal for international economics and related disciplines, which includes regularly updated links to research papers, news and commentaries in the field.

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The International Insurance Foundation is a private charitable educational organization dedicated to raising the standards and improving the efficiency of emerging insurance markets around the world. Profile Programs People Founding Members Publications Partners 1233 Twentieth St., NW Phone: 202/296-2424 Email: info@iifdc.org Suite 202 Washington, DC 20036 Fax: 202/296-4437 Web: www.iifdc.org ...

Erosion of international economic power, with 70% decline of U.S. dollar. I am concered for the economic future of our youth, compared to prior generations.

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Ode Magazine The Treaty of Noordwijk aan Zee is an important step towards a truly new economy - an economy where people matter. On 2 December 2000 the treaty, an initiative by the Dutch alternative newsmagazine Ode, has been signed by about 150 participants. In Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin experts and outsiders from all over the world gathered together to write this treaty within two days. The ...

Do our children deserve to inherit and economy that has become increasingly government-spending-dependent, reducing its prior comparative advantage with other industrialized nations I am concered for the economic future of our youth, compared to prior generations.

Philippe Legrain - Editor of World Link, the magazine of the World Economic Forum, freelance economics writer, former special adviser to WTO director-general Mike Moore and Economist journalist, currently writing a book about globalisation.

The Montaner Project offers immediate work and food for the poor. The Tobin Tax contributes nothing; it only cultivates hopes without harvests.

Trade Policy Analysis No. 1 March 26, 1998 U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST BURMA A Failure on All Fronts by Leon T. Hadar Leon T. Hadar is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who covers international politics and economics with a special interest in East Asia and the Middle East. Executive Summary The U.S. policy of imposing unilateral trade and investment ...

April 23, 1998 Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy by Doug Bandow Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and an editor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World bank and the IMF Today the most important player in the Indonesian financial crisis -- the US Congress -- will vote on the Clinton Administration's plea for $US18 billion ($27.5 billion) in new funds for the IMF. The Congress ...

Links to functional trade policy issues including development, agriculture, environment, labour, finance, investment, and transport.

IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential adviser to the wrong side of the barricades By Gregory Palast It was like a scene out of Le Carre: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of an ideology gone rotten. But this was a far bigger catch than some used-up ...

Comprehensive background information and links on international trade issues, including GATT, NAFTA, and the WTO.

Stuck in Sanctions: U.S. Needs Way Out of Policy Morass by Aaron Lukas Aaron Lukas is an analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies. CHAOS may be too kind a word to describe out trade sanctions policy. The Clinton administration recently appointed Stuart Eizenstat, the current undersecretary of state for economic affairs, head of a new task force designed to make sense of ...

Seminar Papers, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University No 611: Economic Structure and the Decision to Adopt a Common Currency Jeffrey A. Frankel and Andrew K. Rose (arose@haas.berkeley.edu) Abstract: Everyone studying EMU cites the theory of Optimum Currency Areas: whether a country like Sweden should join the currency union depends on such parameters as the extent of ...

An IMF staff team annually visits each country, collects economic and financial information, and discusses with officials the country's economic developments and policies. On return to headquarters, the staff prepares a report, which forms the basis for discussion by the Executive Board.

IMF at a Glance, Statutory Purpose, How the IMF Came About, Training and Technical Assistance, IMF Statistical Activities.

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