Resources about the IMF/World Bank

1.  A Brief History of Resistance to Structural Adjustment.  A country-by-country account of the most visible instances of resistance to the imposition of structural adjustment policies by the IMF and World Bank. (www.a16.org/resources/anti-sap.doc)

2.  IFC and MIGA.  A description of how the two private-lending wings of the World Bank Group work, the harm they do, and the benefits they provide corporations.  (www.a16.org/resources/ifc.doc)

3.  Adjusting America.  A review of how structural adjustment is not just for the South anymore: statistics of how the same agenda is being imposed in the U.S. (www.a16.org/resources/adjustingam-wp.doc)

4.  Frequently Asked Questions on the IMF & World Bank (www.a16.org/resources/WBIMF-QA.rtf)

5.  Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF. (www.a16.org/resources/10reasons.doc)

6.  SAPs in the USA - one-page adaptation, with graphics, of "Adjusting America" (#3) (www.a16.org/resources/sapusa.doc)

7.  50 Years Is Enough Network's Demands of the IMF & World Bank (www.a16.org/resources/demands-final.doc)

8.  Hear it from the Global South:  quotes from people in the South describing the impact of the IMF and World Bank (www.a16.org/resources/quotables.doc)

9.  Open letter to World Bank advocating boycott of its bonds (www.a16.org/resources/boycott.doc)

10.  How IMF/World Bank Policies Encourage Sweatshops and Lower Wages (www.a16.org/resources/Sweatshops2.doc)

11.  Forests and the IMF 10.  Frequently Asked Questions on the IMF & World Bank (www.a16.org/resources/forest.txt)

12.  What is structural adjustment?  How does it hurt the impoverished and benefit the rich? (www.a16.org/resources/4pager.doc)

13. Teach-in organizing materials are now online:(www.cepr.net/teachin/index.html)

14. Excellent resources about the WB (http://www.bicusa.org/toolkits.htm#download)

 

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