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EGYPT: Poverty, Police, and the Ballad of Intellectual Property
Egypt's top pop singer uses song to enforce intellectual property rights these days. His muse? Multinational software corporations like Microsoft, Novell, and Symantec.LABOUR-EGYPT: Reforms Seen to Fuel Injustice, Militancy
Workers here and in other Egyptian industrial parks say they eat their own shoes./REPEAT/ECONOMY: Egyptians Look Askance at Donor Pledges
Egyptians might have cheered the news that international donors have pledged 10.3 billion dollars in loans and aid to their cash-strapped country. Instead, many expressed wariness and described this week's donors' meeting as a begging conference.ECONOMY: Egyptians Look Askance at Donor Pledges
Egyptians might have cheered the news that international donors have pledged 10.3 billion dollars in loans and aid to their cash-strapped country. Instead, many expressed wariness and described this week's donors' meeting as a begging conference.FINANCE: Activists Split Over U.S. Aid Proposals
Activists here are divided over a U.S. proposal to decrease lending to developing countries in favour of grant aid, because the plan would demand greater adherence to Western-style free market economic reforms.ECONOMY: IMF Chief Seeks to Enlist Critics, Scores Wealthy States
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants its critics in civil society to join it in fighting for a global market economy better suited to the interests of developing countries.ENVIRONMENT: World Bank Review Assailed
A World Bank effort to assess its support for mining and energy projects vilified by environmentalists and community activists is failing to prove independent, transparent and consultative, say the lender's critics.FINANCE: Geostrategic Gambit Nets Turkey Little
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit begins a new work week back home Monday, following a five-day visit here for which he had little to show in the way of firm financial support for his country's flagging economy from the United States or the International Monetary Fund (IMF).ECONOMY: Views Diverge on World Bank, IMF Anti-Poverty Effort
Poverty-cutting strategies backed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the developing world have yet to make a dent in neediness but may be drawing civil society groups closer to their governments.FINANCE: IMF Holds Off on Collecting Argentine Loan Repayment
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday it would give Argentina another year to make a loan repayment to the agency of some 933 million dollars. This sum otherwise would have been due Thursday.ECONOMY: Debt Relief Fails to Cut Tanzania’s Poverty – Report
The benefits of debt relief have failed to trickle down to Tanzania's grassroots, where poverty remains rampant, according to the latest assessment by four anti-debt groups.ECONOMY-MIDEAST: IMF Urging Fees, Taxes for Oil-Rich Gulf States
Oil-rich Persian Gulf states should reconsider their cradle-to-grave welfare systems and start imposing taxes on their citizens to offset a decline in oil revenues, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official.2001-2002: Economic Slowdown Raises the Stakes for Debt Relief
Demand for debt relief is likely to intensify in the coming year as the world economy languishes in the doldrums and poor countries suffer the effects of ever- plunging commodity prices.DEVELOPMENT: World Bank Approves PNG Forestry Project Loan Despite Protests
The World Bank has approved a new segment of a loan to Papua New Guinea despite strong opposition from local landowners and environment activists who say the project endangers the world's third largest rainforest.ECONOMY-AMERICAS: Regional Trade Registers Sharp Decline
Trade among countries of the Americas has sharply declined over the past year reversing a ten-year trend and threatening to further dampen an already weak global trade picture.FINANCE: IMF Forecasts Long and Deep Slowdown in World Economy
The current global economic slowdown will be long and deep with developing countries growing modestly as a result of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the International Monetary Fund said in its newly revised semi-annual forecast.EDUCATION-LATAM: Primary Schools Languish Except in Cuba
Primary education in Latin American countries remains in crisis except in Cuba, which stands out as the best performer despite long years of economic hardship, according to a report released Friday.FINANCE: IMF, Critics Differ on ‘Revolution’ in Openness
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), long criticised for secrecy, says it is well on its way to transparency but critics counter the global institution remains largely mysterious and shadowy.ECONOMY: U.S.-Vietnam Trade Pact Ups the Ante for World Bank
The World Bank is pressing Vietnam to speed up economic reforms it says will help the country on its rocky path from central planning to free market.FINANCE: Experts Debate Merits of IMF Bankruptcy Idea
û Analysts remain divided over whether an International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposal to help insolvent countries avoid litigation by private bondholders will quell the financial jitters associated with international bankruptcy.FINANCE-ARGENTINA: IMF Stands its Ground, Plays Down Contagion Fears
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday it would advance no new bailout money for Argentina's ailing economy until Buenos Aires made good on a pledge to implement an austerity programme and eliminate its budget deficit.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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