The limits of reform: The Wolfensohn era at the World Bank

Race and Class

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 68-81

  Bello, Walden ^a   Guttal, Shalmali ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Civil society; Dams; Development; HIPC; Poverty reduction; SAPRI; Structural adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644480497     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: 17413125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396806061087     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission (Meltzer Commission), Report (Washington, DC, US Congress, 2000).
2. George Soros, On Globalization (New York, Public Affairs, 2003), p. 32.
3. Jeffrey Winters, 'Combating corruption in the multilateral development banks', Statement before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Washington, DC, 13 May 2004).
4. International Rivers Network, 'World Bank finally debars company convicted of bribery in Lesotho', Press Release (23 July 2004) 〈http://www.irn.org/programs/ lesotho/index.php?.d=040719.acresdebarred.html〉.
5. Jubilee South/USA, 'HIPC: the official debt relief program', Fact Sheet (June 2002).
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9. Rafael Pereira Gomes, Sadaf Lakhani and Jacqueline Woodman, 'PRSP - politics, power and poverty: a civil society perspective', Economic Policy Empowerment Programme (Eurodad, 2002), pp. 5-6.
10. Ibid.
11. Jenina Joy Chavez and Shalmali Guttal, Structural Adjustment in the Name of the Poor: the PRSP experience in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam (Bangkok, Focus on the Global South, January 2002), p. 18.
12. 'World Bank sticks by Chad-Cameroon pipeline', Reuters (2 December 2002) 〈http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=17729〉.
13. 'Problem project alert #4: China western poverty reduction project', Bank Information Center, 〈http://mirrors/zpok.hu/www.bucusa.or/asia/ppa_tibet1.htm〉.
14. Friends of the Earth USA, Fact Sheet (2000).
15. This section is based on interviews with Janneke Bruil (Friends of the Earth International), Doug Hellinger (the Development Gap), L. C. Jain (planner and economist), Peter Bosshard (International Rivers Network), Patrick McCully (International Rivers Network) and Soren Ambrose (50 Years Is Enough). The interviews were carried out in April 2005.
16. World Bank, Statement on WCD Guidelines (27 March 2001).
17. Ibid.
18. Letter to President James Wolfensohn (12 July 2002).
19. World Bank Management Response to EIR (2004).
20. Letter to President James Wolfensohn (Melbourne, 9 February 2004).
21. 'Afghanistan: World Bank and Central Asian pipeline', Agence France Presse (16 May 2002) 〈http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11197〉.