... to finance post-war construction. Today, the World Bank has a lending portfolio of $144 billion.  Its main purpose is to provide loans and development assistance to middle-income countries and credit- worthy poorer countries. Voting power is linked to members' capital subscriptions, which in turn are based on each country's relative economic strength. The IBRD obtains most of its funds through ... ...

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... and industry, and are often at odds with the United States' long-term geopolitical interests (Drazen 2002, p.8). For instance, the corrupt rules of China are among the largest recipients of credit from the World Bank. In general, the IMF and the World Bank distribute hard currency loans, which are given for one type of "project ", however, in reality, these loans are ... ...

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... ethnic factions, and a general inability to deal with the daily threat of murder, robbery, kidnapping, and extortion, and most notably the notoriety of being perpetrators of many crimes, is lending credit to any other agency or group, such as the Taliban, who are proving more successful in helping the people. (Felbab-Brown, Afghan National Security Forces: Afghan Corruption and the Development ... ...

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... less able to make large purchases of equipment; the premium put on assuring minimal levels of production of needed food crops may inhibit rapid shifts in farming systems), access to credit and possibility for diversification (monoculture producers in vulnerable areas -tropical developing countries- will be more heavily affected). Given a presumption of adverse effects in tropical areas, developing countries can expect a slowdown ... ...

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... international issues. The new peasant movements have a national agenda: they are not solely concerned with rural issues. More specifically they are aware that land distribution policies can only succeed with credit, technical assistance, and protected markets. They recognize that political alliances with urban classes and organizations are necessary in order to transform the regime. They are not simply "economic organizations."" They ... ...

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... health care costs, the rural poor were not able to share in increased access to health service conditions. In 1998, the IMF released a series of publications and public statements "claiming credit for an African economic renaissance" and "a turnaround in growth performance"(Isbister 142). The claim from the IMF and World Bank is that structural adjustment is beginning to pay off, at ... ...

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... create unemployment and lower the standard of living in those countries. The World Bank Organization (World Bank) was created to provide loans to countries that do not have good enough credit to attract private capital, in nation building projects. These projects that the Bank assists in are capital intensive, and usually take a long time to yield a return on investment. The major ... ...

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... to other CIS countries, when looked outside at other transition economies they are just average. Belarus also has the benefit of cheap energy imports from Russia. Thirdly, by provided large credit to enterprises and subsidies, the state protected output from falling at an early stage of the transition. Lastly by not privatizing large enterprises gave the state control of the assets ... ...

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... changes while those without can end up further disadvantaged. The main reason behind this is the fact that 3rd world countries cannot access global financial markets due to their poor credit reputation. This forces them to turn to the only remaining financial institutions, the World Bank and the IMF from where they continually loan and that only skyrockets their national debt ... ...

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... general. Another global organization set to heighten the standards of women is the Women's World Bank, which sways small banks to lend money to women who are otherwise short of credit. However, findings of increasing poverty and disease in Third World countries after the implementation of the World Bank is not a promising factor. In Catherine Scott's book, Gender and Development: Rethinking ... ...

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