Global

European Conference Addresses Financial Crisis and the IFIs
Voksenaasen Statement
June 2009

The Harmonization of Wildlife Habitat and Human Livelihood Imperatives: Addressing Common Root Cause Through a Participatory, Collaborative and Sustainable Approach 
2008

SAPRI Report Exposé Is Compulsary Reading, Says Review
2007

International Parliamentarians' Petition 2005 Annual Report           
February 2006
 
Expansion of the World Bank's Power to Impinge on the Economic Sovereignty of Borrower Nations
Memorandum    
2005
 
World Bank Courts NGOs As Wolfowitz Takes Helm
International Civil-Society Statement
April 2005

World Bank Critics Denounce Civil Society Forum
Press Release 
19 April 2005

"Critical Mistakes in the Campaign to Support Debt Reduction"
Letter to the editor of the Financial Times
27 September 2004

SAPRIN Letter to President of the World Bank
16 April 2004
 
"Investigation by Civil Society and World Bank Challenges Structural Adjustment Programs: Publication of the SAPRI Report Highlights Bank's Continued Inaction on Policy Findings"
Summary of Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report
April 2004

SAPRIN Letter to the Financial Times
12 March 2004

SAPRIN Letter to Vice President of the World Bank
24 October 2003

"Update: Joint Facilitation Committee Moving Forward to Establish Guidelines for World Bank - CSO Relations"
24 October 2003

"Advisory: Concerns about NGO Grouping Planning to Meet World Bank President End of October Regarding Future CSO - World Bank Relations"
14 October 2003

"SAPRIN Releases Findings of Joint Participatory Assessment of Structural Adjustment Conducted With World Bank"
10 May 2002

"From Engagement to Protest"
Forum on Citizens' Challenges to the World Bank
18-19 April 2002

The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis and Poverty
A multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment (SAPRI), edited by The Development GAP for SAPRIN. Published as Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report and Ajuste Estructural: Informe SAPRI
April 2002

"Critics' Attempts at Constructive Dialogue Find World Bank Less Than Engaging"             
News release by The Development GAP and the International Rivers Network
 9 November 2001

"From the Ground Up: The World Bank Turns a Blind Eye to Injustice and More Protestors Take to the Streets"
Published in WorldView
Summer 2001

"Stripping Adjustment Policies of Their Poverty-Reduction Clothing: A New Convergence in the Challenge to the Current Global Economic Management"
Published by the United Nations University
June 2001

"IMF/ World Bank Wings Clipped by IFI Commission, But Development Focus Still Lacking"
News release regarding report of the "Meltzer Commission" on the future of the IFIs to the U.S. Congress
8 March 2001

"Statement before the United Nations Civil Society Hearings on Financing for Development"
7 November 2000
 
"World Bank Ignores Own Failures" 
"Further Proof of Failure of World Bank"
Letters to the editor of the Financial Times
23 June 2000
4 July 2000

"IMF Ventures into the Poverty-Alleviation Business"
Prepared for NACLA's Report on the Americas
November - December 1999

"Civil Society Perspectives on the IMF and World Bank"
Statement of Doug Hellinger to the International Financial Institutions (Meltzer) Advisory Commission 
20 October 1999

"Foreign-Policy Pain"
Letter to the editor of The New York Times
6 September 1999

"SAPs Link Sharpens Debt-Relief Debate"
July 1999

"Conditioning Debt Relief on Adjustment: Creating the Conditions for More Indebtedness"
April 1999

The All-Too-Visible Hand: A Five-Country Look at the Long and Destructive Reach of the IMF
Report by The Development GAP and Friends of the Earth
April 1999
                   
"Study Exposes IMF Failures"
News release by The Development GAP and Friends of the Earth
April 1999

"On the Wrong Track: A Summary Assessment of IMF Interventions in Selected Countries"
Summary report by The Development GAP and Friends of the Earth
December 1998

"Statement of The Development GAP on Proposed Multilateral and G7 Debt-Reduction Plan: Rejection of IMF Policies and Expanded Role in Debtor 
Countries"
October 1999

"IMF Increases Poverty, Unemployment and Inequality in Latin America, Reflecting WorldwideImpact"
February 1998
 
"Presentation to Panel on Poverty, Human Rights And Development, Joint Meeting of the Second and Third Committees of the General Assembly of the United Nations"
16 October 1998

Bank Check Quarterly
News on the international financial institutions from the International Rivers Network and The Development GAP

                     "Major Latin Economies Left Behind as SAP Review Is Readied for Launch"
                     June 1997

                     "Behind the Curve in Latin America"
                     June 1997

                     "Foreign Aid Given, Haitian Justice Denied"
                     June 1997

                     "Global Citizens' Network Built Around SAP Review"
                     April 1997

                     "In Clinton's Second Term, It's Business As Usual"
                     April 1997

                     "Public Pain, Private Gain: Mexico struggles with privatization"
                     December 1996 - January 1997

                     "Wolfensohn Accepts NGO Challenge to Re-Examine Adjustment Operations"
                     September 1996

                     "Mortgaging Mexico's Future"
                      May 1996

                     "Bosnia: Will the Bank Give Peace a Chance?" & "Haitians Seek Control of Their Economy"
                      February 1996

                     "At Beijing Conference, Women Target Economic Injustice"
                      September 1995

                     "Whither the Bank in the New Era?"
                      September 1995

                     "Interview with Carlos Heredia"
                      May 1995

                     "Is Argentina Another Mexico? Will It Be the Next Adjustment 'Success' to Blow?"
                      May 1995

                     "Money Heads for Haiti's Elite-Controlled Private Sector" 
                      May 1995

                     "Haiti Gets $40m Credit"
                      December 1994

                     "Debunking the Myth"
                     Article on structural adjustment published in the Africa Report
                     November - December 1994

                     "Argentina Coming to a Boil" & "Agrarian Woes in Ecuador"
                     September 1994

                     "The Bank is Finally Asking "Why Is Structural Adjustment Not Succeeding in Sub-Saharan Africa?"
                     September 1993

                     "Poverty Increases in Costa Rica"
                     Winter 1992

                     "The Poverty Facade on H Street"
                     Spring 1991

                     "Bank's Poverty Report Whitewashes the Past Decade: Sets stage for more adjustment and suffering in the 90s"
                     September 1990

"Bridging the Gender Gap"
Published in The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. vol. 26, no. 4
October - December 1994

"Roles that the World Bank and IMF must give up"
Letter to the editor of the Financial Times
5 August 1994

"How Clinton Now Caters to the Elite," "World Bank, IMF Policies Hurt Women" & "International Aid Pipeline Needs Reform"
Three-part series in The Tampa Tribune based on interviews of The Development GAP
6 June 1994
8 July 1994
11 July 1994

Summary testimony on the "Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs," presented at the International Peoples' Tribunal to Judge the G-7
3-4 July 1993

The Other Side of the Story: The Real Impact of World Bank and IMF Structural Adjustment Programs 
La Otra Cara de la Moneda: El Verdadero Impacto de los Programas de Ajuste Estructural del Banco Mundial y el FMI
Report on the 1992 "International NGO Forum on World Bank and IMF Adjustment Lending"
                    
Review of The Other Side of the Story, "SAPs: Suffering for African People," African Business
1993

"The NGO Challenge: Sapping Adjustment Programs"
Prepared for Impact
September 1991

"Banking on Deception"
The Development GAP column for the Inter-Press Service, no. 4
July 1991

"Arrogance and Ignorance"
The Development GAP column for the Inter-Press Service, no. 3
May 1991

"The Art of Poverty: Doug Hellinger reflects on the World Bank's latest preoccupation"
Published in the New Internationalist
December 1990

"Third World Debt Never Shrinks"
Letter to the editor of The New York Times
4 December 1989

"The World Bank's Diminishing Credibility"
Published in Dialogue: The Voice of the People in North South Cooperation
July 1988

"The World Bank: Real Change at Last?"
Published in Panoscope, No. 6
May 1988

"The Debt Crisis: Where Does Responsibility Lie?"
Fall 1987
  
"Solutions to the Debt Problem"
Prepared by Fantu Cheru, Douglas Hellinger and Kelly Yencer for the Debt Crisis Network
December 1984