From 'structural adjustment' to 'comprehensive development framework': conditionality transformed?

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This article examines the changing policies of the World Bank. The author argues the World Bank, throughout the 1990s, has consistently shifted its policies and definitions of economic development, which has focused on the poorest in the world with an emphasis to reduce poverty, and maintains they continue to fail due to poor policy development.

World, Prevention, Economic development, World Bank, Poverty

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Post-Lome: the European Union and the South

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The author discusses efforts by the European Union to negotiate a successor trade and development agreement to the Lome Convention IV, which covers 15 EU states and 71 developing countries. Topics include multilateralism and World Trade Organization compliance.

European Union, International trade, World Trade Organization, Powers and duties

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Feds and fashion in economic reforms: Washington Consensus or Washington Confusion?

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The author analyzes the impact of the Washington Consensus, a list of 10 policy recommendations set forth by John Williamson in 1989 for economic reform in developing nations.

Criticism and interpretation, Williamson, John

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