Empty Promises: The IMF - World Bank - and the Planned Failures of Global Capitalism

Edited by The 50 Years Is Enough Network Here is an introduction to two of the institutional power structures that create and manage the contemporary global economy. The IMF was originally assigned to monitor currency values and help avert balance-of-trade crises - and the World Bank was meant to make loans to re-develop war-torn countries. Over the years - those roles have changed and expanded. Beginning around 1980 - when the neo-liberal economic doctrine was becoming entrenched - the IMF and World Bank became much more powerful and they began to design and impose economic policy programs for dozens of countries. These programs became known as the Structural Adjustment Programs which have been imposed on a great majority of governments in the Global South. (80 pages - 2003) Inside you will find these 32 brief essays about most of the vital issues on which the IMF and World Bank have an impact: Demands of the IMF & World Bank Basic Facts About the IMF & World Bank Debt ? The Linchpin of Structural Adjustment & Globalization Structural Adjustment What's in a Name: PRSP and Structural Adjustment The Failures of IMF/World Bank Debt Relief False Start: The IMF's Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism The World Bank's International Development Association: Developing For Whom? The International Finance Corporation MIGA: Taxpayer-Funded Profit Insurance from the World Bank Impact of IMF and World Bank Policies on Labor Globalization and Women The World Bank and Health HIV/AIDS: World's Worst Epidemic - Fueled by Debt & IMF/World Bank Policies Pulling the TRIPS-Wire: Intellectual Property Rights & Public Health Education: A Public Right or a Private Commodity The Drive for Water Privatization Land Reform The Private Sector Development Strategy of the World Bank Group FTAA - CAFTA - PPP - IIRSA - : Latin America's Alphabet Soup of Neo-liberalism GATS: In Whose Service? The World Bank and Free Trade: Working in Harmony The World Bank and Large Dams The World Bank's Corporate Agenda: Enron and Oil for the Global North Export Credit Agencies: The Dirtiest Secret of Globalization Microcredit: Can it Survive the World Bank's Help? Post-Conflict Countries: East Timor Post-Conflict Countries: Sri Lanka Argentina - The IMF - and the World Bank Human Rights - Oil - and Indigenous Communities: The World Bank in the Andean Region Domestic Servitude & IMF/World Bank Staff Act Locally for Global Justice: Join the World Bank Bonds Boycott Resource Guide For more information - visit Global Exchange's IMF/World Bank Campaign.