Re: request for information (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:24:18 -0500
From: Barbara Larcom <larcom@bcpl.net>
To: jon <devorejd@stream.mcs.muohio.edu>
Cc: Peter Grimes <P34D3611@jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: request for information

Dear Jon,

You can check out the following sites.

Statement by African gender groups, Feb. 21, 2001, on the impact of the IMF and
WB:
http://www.50years.org/update/africa.html

A menu of very readable fact sheets by 50 Years Is Enough (an organization whose
entire mission is the radical transformation of the WB and IMF):
http://www.50years.org/factsheets/

Links to case studies on the World Bank, from different countries (Bolivia,
Chad-Cameroon, Guatemala, Ecuador, Haiti, Brazil, Lesotho, Mozambique, Pakistan,
Thailand) - 
scroll down this Web site page a few inches to the third main heading, "Global
South Struggles Against World Bank Programs : Case Studies":
http://208.55.75.172/cej/Links.htm 

More papers on the WB and IMF, by staff at the Center for Economic Policy and
Research (CEPR):
http://www.cepr.net/IMF/index.html

Information about an ongoing campaign (by universities and other organizations)
to boycott any new purchase of World Bank bonds (most of World Bank funding is
provided by OUR LOANS to them!):
http://208.55.75.172/cej/worldbankboycott.htm

A vision of what an alternative, de-globalized economic system might look like,
two short pieces by Walden Bello and Nicola Bullard:
http://www.50years.org/ejn/v3n4/bello.html
http://www.50years.org/ejn/v3n4/globalec.html

Good luck!

Barbara Larcom

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: request for information (fwd)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:51:20 -0500
From: Peter Grimes <p34d3611@jhu.edu>
To: Barbara Larcom <larcom@bcpl.net>

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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:02:28 -0800
From: jon <devorejd@stream.mcs.muohio.edu>
To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: request for information

Dear WSN,

A speaker from the IMF will be coming to my university later in this month
to give a talk for students in the business school.  A group of my friends
(and myself) thought it would be a good idea to attend the lecture and
during the question/answer session pose some questions challenging/critical
of the IMF's policies.  Right now we are looking for any sorts of
documentation/information speaking to how the IMF's policies/programs/action
may have "failed" or backfired in the past (or anything else of a critical
nature) so that we can come up with some specific and well thought out
questions.

Therefore, I am making a request for any valuable information that anyone on
the list could contribute to our little "quest."

Thank you in advance for anything and everything,

Jonathan DeVore