The Scourge of the IMF
When countries entered IMF programs, TB rates went up. When the programs ended and countries escaped from IMF influence, TB rates went down.
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The G8: Humanitarian Failure and Making the World Safe for Corporate Power
Robert Weissman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
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HIV/AIDS,
Economy,
G8 Summit,
Oil Prices,
Deregulation,
Imf,
Food Prices,
Wto,
Global Warming,
Business News
When the political leaders of the most powerful countries get together and issue joint statements, it may be worth looking at what these planetary stewards have in mind.
Destroying African Agriculture
Walden Bello | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
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Biofuels,
Trade,
Food Crisis,
Malawi,
World Bank,
Agriculture,
Africa,
Imf,
Wto,
Structural Adjustment,
Politics News
African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.
The IMF's Historic Transition: Is Less Better?
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.28.2008 | Business
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
Debt Cancellation,
International Monetary Fund,
Asian Financial Crisis,
World Bank,
Bretton Woods,
Treasury Department,
Argentina,
Imf,
US and World Bank,
Creditors Cartel,
Business News
Despite the bravado, today's IMF is not what it once was. These days, the deficit police force is running a whopping small-country-size $400-million annual deficit of its own.
Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank's Damage
Robert Weissman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
For 30 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have remade much of the developing world according to a market fundamentalist ideol...
IMF: Europe's Economic Outlook Is Gloomy
Financial Times | Posted 04.21.2008 | Business
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International Monetary Fund,
Imf,
Gloomy European Economy,
Europe's Economy,
Europe,
Imf Europe Economy,
Business News
Europe's economy is resilient but not immune to global economic threats, the International Monetary Fund warned on Monday as it defended its gloomy vi...
IMF: The Times They Are A-Changin'
Robert Weissman | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
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Public Health,
International Monetary Fund,
Dominque Strauss-Kahn,
Imf,
Structural Adjustment,
Gold Sales,
Barney Frank,
Business News
Have things changed at the International Monetary Fund? Or is the world just witnessing yet another in a long series of global economic double standar...
"You Can't Do It With Force": Will the 44th President Listen to Jeffrey Sachs?
Dan Brown | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
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Al Gore,
John McCain,
Jeffrey Sachs,
Charlie Rose,
Africa,
United Nations,
Malaria,
Bono,
Imf,
Kofi Annan,
Aids Epidemic in Africa,
War on Terror,
HIV/AIDS,
Islamic Radicalism,
Climate Change,
Extreme Poverty,
Unicef,
Earth Institute,
Jeffrey D. Sachs,
International Aid,
92nd Street Y,
Extremism,
U.S. Economy,
Economy,
US Economy,
Bush Economy,
Business News
Sachs has many allies and supporters, including Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and Bono. Will the Democrat nominee embrace his humane and sensible proposals?
Dramatic Turnaround: IMF Head Calls For Stimulus Packages
Financial Times | Chris Giles and Gillian Tett | Posted 01.27.2008 | Business
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Imf,
Davos,
Dominque Strauss-Kahn,
Stimulus Packages,
International Monetary Fund,
Business News
The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough "to get out of the turmoil we are in", Dominique Straus...
Questions Congress Needs to Ask Before Authorizing Bush's 'See, Hear, Speak No Evil' Saudi Arms Deal
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.21.2008 | Business
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Saudi Aramco,
Saudi Arabia,
Saudi Arms Deal,
Sam Bodman,
Imf,
King Abdullah,
Qatif Girl,
Congress,
Iraq,
President Bush,
Opec,
Saudi Weapons,
Oil,
Business News
Before authorizing the sale of some of our most sophisticated military hardware to a fair weather friend at best, a number of questions should be asked and answered.
Agencies Expect Good Year For Iraq
BBC News | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
Iraq faces a period of economic growth and political progress, according to assessments by the International Monetary Fund and the UN. The IMF sees 7...
Edwards, Not Obama, is Mr. Africa
Robert Naiman | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
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HIV/AIDS,
International Monetary Fund,
Dennis Kucinich,
Africa,
World Bank,
John Edwards,
Hillary Clinton,
Imf,
Barack Obama,
Bill Richardson,
Obama Africa,
Politics News
It seems that unlike his Democratic rivals, Sen. Obama would not commit to $50 billion in new funding in coming years to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria.
Chavez, S. American Allies Launch Regional Bank
AP | Bill Cormier | Posted 12.10.2007 | Business
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Imf,
Banco Del Sur,
Chavez,
Hugo Chavez,
Inter-American Development Bank,
Bank of the South,
President Chavez,
World Bank,
Business News
Hugo Chavez and leaders of six other South American nations launched a regional development bank that they tout as the continent's answer to U.S.-infl...
Growth Abroad Offsets Sluggish U.S. Sales
New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business
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Economic Slowdown,
Imf,
Global Economy,
International Business,
Global Growth,
International Monetary Fund,
Sluggish US Sales,
Business News
If the fortunes of the Power Curbers company were tied solely to business in the United States, these would be grim days at its factory on the fringes...
A Bank of Their Own
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics
This column was published by Alternet on October 31, 2007. "Developing nations must create their own mechanisms of finance instead of suffering under...
The Pink Lower Half
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics
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Bush South America,
South America,
Hugo Chavez,
Argentina 1st Lady,
Argentina's New President,
Argentina,
Imf,
Christina Fernandez De Kirchner,
Nestor Kirchner,
Capitalism,
Pinochet,
Politics News
Now more than ever, the world needs South America. No other continent is more familiar with the evilness of an unregulated free trade system, or how to successfully fight the power-hungry neo-conservatives, who put such systems in place.
For the IMF, Failure is Impossible . . . To See
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics
A version of this column appeared in the International Herald Tribune on October 19, 2007. In the Spring and Fall of each year the International Mone...
IMF: No Sex, Still a Scandal
Robert Weissman | Posted 10.03.2007 | Business
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IMF,
World Healthcare,
Paul Wolfowitz,
IMF Scandal,
International Monetary Fund,
World Bank,
Business News
IMF policies have left shattered economies around the world, consigned untold millions to poverty, and directly and indirectly destroyed social welfare systems throughout much of the developing world.
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