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The role of public administration in alleviating poverty and improving governance

Selected papers from the launching conference of the Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6-8 December 2004. (Asian Development Bank, 2005)

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Role-of-Public-Administration/

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Transparency at the IMF: A guide for civil society on getting access to information from the IMF

The Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) has launched a new guide to transparency at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The guide seeks to help civil society learn how to use the information that is already made available by the IMF. It also provides an insight into the improvements that could be made in the IMF's transparency policy (Global Transparency Initiative, October 2007).

http://www.ifitransparency.org/doc/Transparency_IMF_GTI.pdf

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US Intervention in Venezuela

Global Exchange brought a delegation of almost 200 people to participate in the World Social Forum in Venezuela in January. As we grow increasingly concerned about US intervention in Venezuela, we are reminded about why the Bush Administration is so aggressive towards this country, because: "the Administration's concerns about Venezuela...relate to a deeper concern about the erosion of support for the neoliberal "free market" system promoted by the US government in Latin America for decades." by Medea Benjamin March 4, 2006, Global Exchange.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0304-20.htm

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US involvement sparks dispute in Nicaragua

The United States has kicked up a new storm in Nicaragua, one of its Cold War battlefields, over its efforts to derail former Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega's latest bid to return to power. In the final stages of the Nov. 5 election race, a string of U.S. officials have publicly voiced concerns about Ortega, saying a victory for him could hit U.S. aid and investment. Presidential candidates, Nicaragua's top electoral council and the Organisation of the American States have condemned US meddling. (Reuters Alertnet, 4 November 2006)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04431630.htm

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Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution at a Turning Point

With the surprising loss of the constitutional reform referendum in December (by a minimal vote difference of 1.3%) Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution reached a turning point. The April 2002 coup attempt, the December 2002 shutdown of the oil industry and the August 2004 recall referendum represented major defeats for the opposition and a radicalisation ofthe Bolivarian process. But the failed reform was quite different: it was the first defeat for the Bolivarian movement, after 12 national electoral contests,since Hugo Chávez was elected in 1998, [1] and the first time that he and his movement had been forced to examine which way the process must go if it is to advance (10 January 2008).

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1080/1/

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Who Will Pay?:Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges

By Peter S. Heller, International Monetary Fund, November 2003 "Peter Heller emphasizes one overriding theme in this important new book: think ahead in managing public sector budgets. One might suppose such a message to be superfluous. After all, do we really need reminding that our actions today affect our choices tomorrow, whether in our personal decisions or in our collective decisions regarding a national budget? Yet Heller is thoroughly persuasive in demonstrating that current fiscal practices around the world fall far short of the necessary intertemporal logic and rigor. He goes far to explain why that is so, and why thinking ahead in fiscal affairs is much harder than it looks. Even more important, he shows how governments can improve their fiscal policymaking by adopting new tools for intertemporal analysis and budget implementation. The lessons are so powerful, indeed, that they would do much to transform the practices of Heller's own institution, the International Monetary Fund, in its role of helping countries escape the trap of extreme poverty."

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/nft/2003/WWP/index.htm

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Whose Democracy is the United States Promoting in Nicaragua?

This article details effots by the U.S. government to defeat Daniel Ortega, candidate of the National Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN), in Nicaragua's November presidential elections. Ortega, president during the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s, is running for president for the fourth time since his first defeat in 1990. While the US government touts its support of democracy as the justification for intervening in the internal affairs of a sovereign state - offering funding to rival political parties and criticising Ortega. The author argues that the least US ambassador Trivelli could do is to demonstrate due respect for the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which states that "it is the duty of all persons enjoying such privileges and immunities not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State," and show respect for the people of Nicaragua, who have the right to define their own political processes. (Brynne Keith-Jennings, International Relations Center, April 26, 2006)

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3238

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Why it's over for America

An inability to protect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. A lack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the 'failed state'. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly what the US is becoming. In an exclusive extract from his devastating new book, America's leading thinker explains how his country lost its way. (Noam Chomsky, The Independent, 30 May 2006)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13426.htm

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World Bank graft fight stirs debate on Africa aid

Corruption clouds the African continent. The use of foreign aid for personal gain impoverishes the people and hamstrings development efforts. World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has put fighting the problem at the heart of the WB's activities, halting lending to projects in Kenya and Chad, among other countries around the world. But his drive to stamp out the abuse of funding by officials who siphon off the cash for personal gain has raised hackles among Western donors such as Britain, France and Italy, who fear his campaign could slow lending and punish the poor. But there is a growing number of Africans who say foreign aid -- regardless of whether it is tied to good governance -- does more harm than good. They argue it weakens trade, supports corruption and discourages a spirit of self-reliance. (Reuters Alertnet, 20 September 2006)

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20060920/world-bank-africa-aid-debate.htm

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