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Hunger and malnutrition are today associated with the capitalist system. The evidence points to a further deterioration of the food situation in the Third World in the foreseeable future, as a result of massive capital and technology transfers from the rich capitalist countries to the underdeveloped agricultures operated by transnational concerns or private investors, with the active support of development assistance agencies such as the World Bank. Contrary to the superficial predictions of the World Bank, for example, poverty is bound to increase and the purchasing power of the masses must decline. Particular attention must be paid to the supply of staple foods and the proletariat. This is threatened by a variety of factors, attributable to the operation of the capitalist system. Among them are the senseless waste of Third World resources caused by the foreign investors' insatiable thirst for the quick repatriation of super-profits and the increasing orientation of Third World agricultures toward high-value or export crops (which are usually the same), an orientation which is imposed upon them by the industrial countries' agricultural development strategies. Even self-sufficiency programs for more staple foods, such as the ill-reputed Green Revolution, predictably cannot be of long duration.

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Should the Political Prohibition in Charters of International Financial Institutions Be Revisited? The Case of the World Bank

The World Bank Legal Review ◽

10.1596/9780821388631_ch02 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 59-92 ◽

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Author(s):

Hassane Cissé

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Financial Institutions ◽

The Political ◽

International Financial Institutions ◽

The World Bank ◽

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Organizing Collaboration

Ending Global Poverty ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198850175.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 22-42

Author(s):

Constantine Michalopoulos

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The Netherlands ◽

World Bank ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

The Political ◽

Global Poverty ◽

Poor Countries ◽

Political Situation ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

The Uk

The story of Eveline Herfkens, Hilde F. Johnson, Clare Short and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, all of whom, with different titles became ministers in charge of development cooperation in the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and Germany in 1997–8, and what they did together to bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality in the war against global poverty, starts with a short discussion of their background. This is followed by a discussion of the political situation and the different government arrangements that determined development policy in their countries at the time. The last part of the chapter reviews the beginnings of their collaboration which focused on ensuring that the debt relief provided to highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs) in programmes supported by the World Bank and the IMF resulted in actually lifting people out of poverty.

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