vanavond: debat over de Wereldbanks eisen
A SEED - 06.06.2006 10:36
De rest van de tekst is net als het debat in het engels:
The World Bank – Reducing Poverty or Enforcing Free Market
Fundamentalism?
DEBATE
We are not around to tell countries how to run their business, said the
World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz at a press conference in August
2005. Yet there is an increasing amount of evidence demonstrating that
the World Bank is still paving the way for trade liberalization in the
southern countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has been assisted and guided by
the World Bank for more than 25 years now. Yet average incomes there are
lower today than in 1990. The Sub Saharan African countries might not be
able to eradicate poverty until 2147 if they stick to the old World Bank
policy prescriptions for water privatization, governmental budget cuts
and reliance on exports only for income generation.
The Bank phrases the conditions it requires for countries to put in
place in order to receive loans as “poverty reduction strategies” and
“good governance practices”. How much of that is real and how much a
camouflage?
Speakers:
* Angela Wood, independent researcher, author of “Demystifying Good
Governance: an overview of World Bank Governance Reforms and
Conditions”;
* Maartje van Putten, ex World Bank Inspection Panel member;
* Nicky Pouw, Director a.i. Master's International Development Studies
C.M. Kan Instituut
Chair:
Luciano J. Maranzana, Manager of International Development Programme at
ISHSS,UvA
Time: 20:00
Place: Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4 (University of Amsterdam, behind
Crea-cafe)
Date: June 6th (Tuesday)
Organizers:
Machiavelli
A SEED Europe
CREA – Studium Generale
contact:  info@aseed.net, 020-6682236
 Website: http://www.wbbeurope.org
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