The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. By Sigrun I. Skogly. London, Sydney: Cavendish Publishing, 2001. Pp. xiii, 215. Index. £71.50.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-504
Author(s):  
Joan Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

Jubilee 2000

1994 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Peters
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The International Monetary Fund ◽  
Intellectual Climate

With five years to go until 2000 is upon us the debt campaign is at present concentrating on two elements important for success. The first is capturing and extending what might be described as grass-roots interest: signs already have appeared of some sympathy with, and even support for, the campaign among economists, bankers, civil servants, diplomats, and politicians; discreet encouragement from the inner courts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank has been recorded. The second is a change in the international, political, and intellectual climate to favour remission.

Poverty, Human Rights and the Quest for Sustainable Human Development in Structurally-Adjusted Uganda

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
J. Oloka-Onyango
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Political System ◽  
Economic Adjustment ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

In a bid to address the almost two decades of economic malaise and decline that Uganda had experienced in the 1970s and 1980s, Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement adopted radical measures of economic adjustment under the tutelage of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Although those measures resulted in significant economic growth – in GDP terms – this article argues that they failed to be conscious of basic principles of human rights relating to equality, non-discrimination and participation, and have consequently compounded the situation of poverty in the country. It further argues that the ‘non-party’ political system in existence further undermines the promotion and protection of fundamental human rights.

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