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...come under increasing fire since it played a visible role in the Asian financial crisis. In order to receive loans to repay foreign creditors, the affected nations were forced to implement various austerity programs, decreasing government spending and opening some sectors of the economy to foreign competition. One of the first casualties of these programs were corrupt and insolvent banking systems, from which the politically connected had been able to receive economically unjustified loans; the cleansing of the banking system has been given partial credit for the recent resurgence of growth in countries like South Korea. Additional casualties of such...
...largely proportional to the size of a nation's financial commitment. If the developed world is not going to give others an equal voice at the table, it at least ought to heed the IMF and World Bank when they offer anti-poverty proposals that would be simple to implement. We have already noted the Clinton administration's shameful refusal (largely under pressure from domestic labor unions) to open markets to the exports of poor countries at the request of the World Bank. The IMF and World Bank have now created a joint committee to implement two initiatives for poverty...
Glynn, who is a PSLM member, said she and fellow protesters would try to implement non-violent "direct action" to support their cause, rather than resort to the kind of vandalism that marked last year's Seattle marches...
...community has been saying for the last year is that we believe there's an obvious and a just way to use a tiny portion of this money: Give it to workers. It would cost Harvard $10 million, or three-fifths of one percent of its budget, to implement a living wage. This cost would be unnoticeable amid the extraordinary expenses that the University assumes without complaint. And yet it would profoundly change the lives of at least 1,000 families in our community. We believe that this is a price worth paying...
...speakers at yesterday's rally said Harvard should move more quickly to implement a living wage...