World Bank, IMF, SAPs and Debt

European Conference Addresses Financial Crisis and the IFIs
June 2009

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

50 YEARS IS ENOUGH
U.S. campaign, co-launched by The Development GAP, on the World Bank and IMF

            "Fifty Years Was Enough"
             A Third World Network feature
            September 2004

            "Rubin, Cohen, Greenspan Misleading American People, IMF Protestors Say"
          News release by 50 Years Is Enough
          30 January 1998

            "G-7 Must Challenge Roles of IMF, World Bank: Failed Economic Model at Heart of Mexico's Collapse"
            News release by 50 Years Is Enough
            7 June 1995

            "World Bank Report Mere Diversion, Says Campaign; Bank's Failed Economic Policies Should Be at Center of UN Social Summit's Analysis"
            News release by 50 Years Is Enough
            3 March 1995

            "World Bank Debt Analysis Undone by Mexican Crisis"
            News release by 50 Years Is Enough
            January 1995

            "Congress Faces New Opportunity to Promote Sweeping Reforms of World Bank, IMF"
            News release by 50 Years Is Enough
            December 1994

            "World Bank Annual Report: A Study in Self Satisfaction"
            News release by 50 Years Is Enough
            21 September 1994

            "Fifty Years! How Much Chicanery, How Much Waste, How Much..."
            Special report in The Earth Times
            15 July 1994

            "Structural Adjustment / Economic Justice"
           Proposals by 50 Years Is Enough
            1994

            "50 Years Is Enough Platform"
           Platform Summary
            8 June 1994

  "50 Years Is Enough Campaign Statement"
23 February 1994

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: El 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

"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

"Realities, Myths & Options: The Impact of -- and Alternatives to -- World Bank and IMF Economic Policies in the Hemisphere"
A public forum with civil-society leaders from Latin America, co-hosted by The Development GAP and
SAPRIN
18 April 2000

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

"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

"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-Invisible Hand: A Five-Country Look at the Long and Destructive Reach of the IMF
A 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

"Rechazan Gestión Social"
Una entrevista con The Development GAP por la prensa mexicana
2 November 1998

"Presentation to the Panel on Poverty, Human Rights and Development at the Joint Meeting of the Second and Third Committees of the General Assembly of the United Nations"
16 October 1998

"Fast Pitch: A Few Friends Gather around the Mound in Nicaragua"
Article in WorldView on baseball and structural adjustment in Nicaragua
October 1998

"Profetas Errentes"
Artículo en Reforma
19 September 1998

"House Takes Positive Step in Limiting IMF Expansion and Influence"
News Release
17 September 1998

"Testimony Regarding Congressional Funding of the International Monetary Fund Presented to the Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives"
21 April 1998

"The Failure of the Mexico Bailout"
April 1998

"World Bank's Lauding of Asian Economies Raises Questions"
Letter to the editor of the Financial Times
3 February 1998

"IMF Increases Poverty, Unemployment and Inequality in Latin America, Reflecting Worldwide Impact"
February 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

"Mexican Government Payback Bad News for Mexicans"
News release
15 January 1997

Women Standing Up to Adjustment in Africa
Les Femmes Contestent L'Ajustement en Afrique
A report of the African Women's Economic Policy Network (AWEPON), co-published with The Development GAP
July 1996

"Forum on Democratic Alternatives to Structural Adjustment in America"
"Foro Sobre Alternativas Democráticas al Ajuste Estructural en América"
Forum organized by The Development GAP and Equipo PUEBLO, of Mexico, at the Inter-American Development Bank
21 May 1996

"Mexico's House of Cards"
4 April 1996

Structural Adjustment and the Spreading Crisis in Latin America
A report by The Development GAP in collaboration with Equipo Pueblo (Mexico), CRIES (Nicaragua), CECADE (Costa Rica) and FUNDE (El Salvador)
1995

"Desafío al modelo del ajuste estructural y el ambiente político en Estados Unidos"
Preparado por The Development GAP para Globalización y Bloques Económicos: Realidades
1995

The Polarization of Mexican Society: A Grassroots View of World Bank Economic Adjustment Policies
Report by Equipo PUEBLO, published by The Development GAP, for the NGO Working Group on the World Bank
December 1994

La Polarización de la Sociedad Mexicana: Una Visión Desde la Base de las Políticas de Ajuste Económico del Banco Mundial
Informe por Equipo PUEBLO, publicado por The Development GAP, para el Grupo de Trabajo de las ONGs sobre el Banco Mundial
December 1994

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

"The World Bank, the IMF and Illegal Drug Production: The Case of Bolivia"
News release
September 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

"The World Bank and USAID in Africa: The Tragedy of Structural Adjustment, the Promise of Broad-Based
Participation"
Testimony before the Subcommittee on African Affairs, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
24 March 1994

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

Structural Adjustment in Central America: The Case of Costa Rica
El Ajuste Estructural en Centroamérica: El Caso de Costa Rica
June 1993

"Testimony Submitted to the Senate Committee on Finance on the Nomination of Lawrence Summers"
18 March 1993

"Statement on the Appointment of Lawrence Summers"
26 January 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"
1993

Review of The Other Side of the Story, "SAPs: Suffering for African People," African Business
June 1993

"In Zimbabwe, World Bank Decrees Misery"
Letter to the editor of The New York Times
23 July 1992

"Statement before the Select Committee on Hunger, U.S. House of Representatives"
3 June 1992

"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

Statement before the Subcommittee on African Affairs, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
16 May 1991

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

"The Other War"
The Development GAP column for the Inter-Press Service, no. 1
January 1991

"African Democracy and the World Bank"
Letter to the editor of The Washington Post
20 December 1990

"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

"Sudan: No Simple Solutions"
Published in Dollars & Sense
November 1989

Aid for Just Development: Report on the Future of Foreign Assistance
Lynne Reinner Publishers, (c) The Development GAP
1988

Summary of Aid for Just Development
1988

"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