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How to manufacture a global food crisis : lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO

Posted by admin | May 16, 2008 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, The Commons, Trade and Investment

How “free trade” is destroying Third World agriculture-and who’s fighting back (This article appears in the June 2, 2008, edition of The Nation [New York]. It is being reprinted with permission from The...

Forum slams IMF ‘legitimacy problems’

Posted by admin | Sep 18, 2006 | 1Post Types

Andi Haswidi, The Jakarta Post, Batam Only the rich nations that are not affected by IMF policies benefit from the institution’s reforms, a speaker at Batam’s International Peoples Forum said Friday. Walden Bello, a...

The Crisis of Multilateralism

Posted by admin | Sep 15, 2006 | The Commons

Walden Bello | September 13, 2006; Foreign Policy In Focus Already buffeted by institutional crisis and policy conflicts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are heading into their fall meeting—scheduled to...

TAKE THE IMF OFF LIFE SUPPORT

Posted by admin | May 26, 2006 | The Commons

[Espanõl] by Soren Ambrose and Walden Bello * As economists and politicians debate what to do about the latest challenges facing the IMF, civil society groups have a straightforward answer: take the IMF off life support. For...

Critics Plan Offensive as IMF-World Bank Crisis Deepens

Posted by admin | Apr 26, 2006 | The Commons

[Espanol | Français] By Walden Bello Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades ringing the two institutions at the heart...

The Limits of Reform: the Wolfensohn Era at the World Bank

Posted by admin | Apr 25, 2005 | The Commons

By Walden Bello & Shalmali Guttal * WITH all the hullabaloo generated by the designation of Paul Wolfowitz as his successor, outgoing World Bank President James Wolfensohn’s record in leading the Bank has so far...

WOLFOWITZ IN THE PHILIPPINES: A HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE

Posted by admin | Apr 25, 2005 | 1Post Types

By Walden Bello* A RECENT request for information on the record of Paul Wolfowitz, the incoming president of the World Bank, in the Philippines brought back memories of the last days of the Marcos regime in 1985-86 and...

The IMF’s hidden agenda

Posted by admin | Jan 26, 1998 | The Commons

by Walden Bello, in The Nation Newspaper, 25 January, 1998, Bangkok, ThailandDebate on the pros and cons of the agency’s austere demands has missed the point. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been getting a much...

Shadow of gloom lengthens

Posted by admin | Dec 30, 1997 | The Commons

by Walden Bello, the Nation Newspaper, 5 December, 1997, Bangkok, ThailandThe IMF austerity measures brought a decade of zero or minimal economic growth in Latin America and Africa. Similarly, Asia will see the recession induced...