... granted to the world's poorest nations so that they are not condemned to perpetual poverty, misery and underdevelopment as it is the case in Cote d"Ivoire, a small country on Africa's West Coast that has a declining life expectancy that is about 15 years below the average for all developing countries, has a literacy rate which is 30 percent lower than the average and its ... ...

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Under the chairmanship of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, the Independent Commission on International Development Issues examined the problems facing the global economy in the early 1980s. Brandt's panel of former world leaders and other ... ...

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... affair and the curtailment of free markets and liberal trade regimes. Reducing the economic power and role of the state therefore became a central strategic objective. The means adopted by the West for achieving this in the 1980s was to develop a new breed of policy-based loans, "structural adjustment lending" as it came to be known, which involved a high degree of conditionality ... ...

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