What role does the IMF play in the world economy? What are the main costs and benefits of IMF adjustment policies? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) aims to promote international monetary cooperation‚ secure financial stability‚ facilitate international trade‚ promote high employment and sustainable growth‚ along with reducing poverty around the world. The IMF was created in 1945‚ where it is governed by and accountable to the 187 countries that make up its near-global membership. (IMF at a
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This article is specific to small loans. For financial services to the poor‚ see Microfinance. For small payments‚ see Micropayment. Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship. These individuals lack collateral‚ steady employment and a verifiable credit history and therefore cannot meet even the most minimal qualifications to gain access to traditional credit. Microcredit is a part of microfinance‚ which is the provision of
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Ensuring the Social‚ Political‚ and Technological Protection of Water Quality Protecting Against Bacterial‚ Parasitic‚ and Protozoan Pathogens Nathan Pankowsky Contents Abstract....................................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3
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JSIS 201: The Making of the 21st Century Winter 2014 – Architecture 147 Prof. Joel S. Migdal Office Hours: e-mail: migdal@u.washington.edu Wed. office: 329 Thomson Hall 1:00-2:30 JSIS 201 has its own web page with important information about the course. The URL is: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/882623. The page has an electronic version of this syllabus‚ links to international information sources‚ a Message and Discussion Board‚ and more. There will be a formal CLUE (Center for Learning
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Final exam SOSC 1375 1. The dangerous poor is about a person or a group in society who leave in poverty. Marcus Aurelius said “poverty is the mother of crime”. This means that people who commit the crime are in poverty and that what motivates them to break the law. There is an old prejudice in society such as‚ the poor one a dangerous lot who will stop to criminality of given opportunity. The question that government has to consider is how we can contain‚ control or neutralize the danger this class
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Bateman 1 CONFLICT IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON: A STUDY OF POLITICAL PROTEST IN BAGUA © 2010 By Joseph Bateman A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies Croft Institute for International Studies Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College University of Mississippi University‚ Mississippi Spring 2010 Bateman 2 Table of Contents Chapter One Introduction ...................................................
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Progress in Development Studies 12‚ 2&3 (2012) pp. 135–151 Organizational culture and public sector reforms in a post–Washington consensus era: Lessons from Ghana’s good reformers Francis Y. Owusu Department of Community and Regional Planning‚ Iowa State University‚ Ames‚ Iowa‚ USA Abstract: Reforming Africa’s public sector has been on the agenda of African governments and their development partners for decades and yet the problem persists. This failure can be attributed to two related
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79 The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective Jerzy Zdanowski* PL ISSN 02398818 HEMISPHERES Vol. 29‚ No. 1‚ 2014 The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective Abstract At the turn of 2011‚ turbulent events occurred in the Middle East. Initially‚ these protests were a form of civil disobedience‚ but the situation later developed in several directions. In Tunisia and Egypt‚ the authorities finally gave in to the growing protests. In Jordan‚ Algeria‚ Morocco‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ the United Arab
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References: Blakeley‚ R. (2009) State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South. New York: Routledge. Daalder‚ I.H. (2007) Beyond Pre-emption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changing World. Brookings Institution Press. HOLTON‚ R. J. & TURNER‚ B. S. (1989) Max Weber on Economy and Society. London: Routledge
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Reviews. All rights reserved GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICS Suzanne Berger Department of Political Science‚ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02139; e-mail: szberger@mit.edu ? Key Words internationalization‚ neoliberalism‚ trade opening‚ social dumping‚ states and markets s Abstract This chapter reviews the issues at stake in current public and scholarly debates over the impact of changes in the international economy on domestic politics and society. Over the
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