A lot of these sound likely to be pretty bad. I think you have good reason to be unhappy with the WB in South Africa and also Mozambique.
But, what's story on the specific development loans to Zimbabwe, e)-i)? Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Bond <pbond at wn.apc.org> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:15 PM Subject: Re: WB and IMF
> From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb at jmu.edu>
> OK. Please list some specific projects or actions by
> the WB that have damaged less developed countries.
Comrade Barclay, how much time do we have here.
I broadly endorse the material that is on whirledbank.org, which Dennis has pointed to, as well as slew of recent (1998+) critical books specifically on the WB (Payer, Rich, Caulfield, George, Mihovic). But if you want to get into some original detail sharing, I've got a few from my 'hood which I've been playing a minor role in documenting:
big project loans: a) Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe/Zambia b) Lesotho Highlands Water Project
structural adjustment programmes: c) Zimbabwe
debt `relief': d) Mozambique, including conditionality on health, water, cashew nuts, etc
sectoral loans: e) Zimbabwe land f) Zimbabwe urban development g) Zimbabwe energy h) Zimbabwe health i) Zimbabwe education
policy advice: j) South Africa in virtually every area of social and economic policy k) Zimbabwe ditto
WB as `Knowledge Bank' (sic): l) South Africa
International Finance Corporation investments: m) South Africa privatised infrastructure, managed health care and Dominos Pizza (yup)
Pick a letter and I'll email over a paper or chapter I've drafted over the past two years, offlist, ok?
Then you can decide if the WB staff deployed in Southern Africa are good cops. Or killers.