World Bank, IMF and Human Rights: Conference held at Tilburg University, 11-13 October, 2001

Reform of the IMF and World Bank

Department of Veterinary Pathology WEDNESDAY SLIDE CONFERENCE 2001 - 2002 CONFERENCE 6 17 October 2001 Conference Moderator

Tilburg University Wait and

Anticipatory behavior is aimed at goals that can be reached in the near future. Underlying this behavior are neurophysiological processes, which realize a setting of brain structures involved in the future perception, information processing and action. Anticipatory behavior is accompanied by slow brain potentials, which are generated in the Ž . Ž . cerebral cortex. They are known as the readine...

IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty

The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. I find no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less fro...