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The World Bank's Africa Strategy
June 2011
Patrick Bond

Whose interest does the ten-year Strategy document for Africa actually serve? The World Bank has shown little insight into the real problems Africa faces, focusing instead on ineffective policies, support for repressive regimes and projects that are known to have failed.

Abandon the Washington Consensus, forge the Istanbul Consensus
May 2011
Susan George

The world has had more than enough of the Washington Consensus. It’s time to impose an Istanbul Consensus based on common sense, low-cost solutions, public honesty and simple justice and give the people of the LDCs, at last, a chance.

Creating a Nation of Poor, Sick and Ignorant
June 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

A new bill has been passed in Russia that will extensively roll back Government funding of education, the arts and social services - by introducing per capita financing - that will punish smaller towns and downgrade quality in the larger ones.

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