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"benefactor" of the humanitarian financial aid of the World Bank. The government of the developing nation with a populous of some 90 million people has been receiving assistance as far back as the early 2000 's to help combat poverty and famine until its funding was cut off in 2005 when the country 's "authoritarian leaders massacred scores of people and arrested some 20,000 political opponents following disputed elections. After a year, the bank restrategized and decided to begin funding local…

Neoliberalism in the contemporary era, is the key issue bolstering the unequal power relationships and wealth inequality that drives political discontent, which now engulfs the western world. Presently, to comprehend the origins of neoliberalism, the appeal to history must begin with a powerful simplification: colonialism. Colonialism is the subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another through military conquest of territory and caricaturing the relation between the…

and within-national inequalities. For example, within Zambia and more specifically in Misisi, children, women and men suffer endlessly from preventable diseases that can be prevented by those sitting in “plush offices”, working for SAPs and The World Bank. While countless people in Misisi sit and wait in illness infested hospital rooms, cleaner hospital beds sit empty for the select few who can afford to pay $40 to help save their families lives. The reasons for this disconnect come from the…

Besides, poverty reduction can also be considered as one of the main challenges for developing countries. Regarding to the estimation by the World Bank, 12.7% of the world’s population in 2012 lived under extreme poverty; at or below 1.90 dollars per day (the new poverty line). Since 1990, the attempt to reduce poverty has resulted in a decreasing trend of the numbers of the poor. However, poverty…

A Brief Analysis of the Past, Present, and Future of The International Monetary Fund History During the 1930s the world was experiencing the greatest economic crisis it had ever seen—The Great Depression. Entire countries’ economies were beginning to fail and many attempted to rectify the issue by raising barriers to foreign trade, further escalating the issue. By this time, world trade had declined by 66%—over two billion dollars (IMFWEBSITESOURCE). The future founders of the International…

a force so damaging to the Third World societies, ironically in the name of people's interests. The author substantiate his claim by using qualitative data and historical data. Mass poverty in Asia, Africa, and Latin America was a discovery of the post-World War II period. The poor increasingly appeared as a social problem requiring new ways of intervention in society. Two-thirds of the world's peoples were transformed into poor subjects in 1948 when the World Bank defined as poor those…

Cambodia people can work for hours and hours just to be barely paid. People can save their money in banks only to find them empty and others must experience through immense poverty since their government contains an immense lust for money and power. A plethora of causes of poverty exists in our world and people loathe them. Loans commonly and predominant cause poverty , whether they are student loans or bank loans for houses, to escape debt or out of poverty. A person gives a Loan (a certain…

globalisation. Global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the World Bank are examples of international organisations that serve the purposes of rich states, and exploit developing and poor states. Though it can be said that globalisation helps poor and developing countries as they have access to the open market,…

Microfinance is the provision of financial serves to the poor people with very small business or business projects (Otero, 1999 cited in Marzys, 2006). Commercial banks are not able to cater to the financial needs of the poor people due to lack of collateral security and also due to information asymmetries and hence a very small proportion of the world population has access to financial instruments. Robinson (2001 p. 9) defines microfinance institution as small scale financial services…