By Nicola Bullard The International Monetary Fund’s new managing director’s intention to “drive change from within the institution rather than have it imposed from outside”(1) does not inspire confidence,...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard THE reputation of the World Bank lies in tatters this week following news that Dr Ravi Kanbur, team leader and principal author of this year’s World Development Report, had resigned in protest at attempts...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard The US Congress vote against the full request for IMF funding was a rebuke for President Clinton, who had already secured Senate support for the bill and remains convinced that the IMF is central to solving the...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard “The IMF bill is a hot-potato, and as we get closer to the November congressional election everyone wants it out of the way,’’ says Carol Welch from Friends of the Earth -US. But, so far, the IMF funding...
Read Moreby Nicola Bullard, Walden Bello, and Kamal Malhotra printed in The Nation Newspaper, 4 March 1998, Bangkok, ThailandThe decade-long US foreign economic agenda for Asia gained an opening in the financial crisis, and Washington...
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