[stop-imf] ActionAid USA: The IMF, MDGs and the Fight Against HIV-AIDS

[robert weissman]

*Policies and Priorities*

*/A quarterly briefing by ActionAid International USA/*
Volume 1, Issue 2  Spring 2006
http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/IFI_Spring_2006-color6.pdf  **

*- The IMF, the MDGs and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS*

The need for economic policy change*

*- Spring Thaw on Monetary Policy at the IMF?*

By Rick Rowden, Policy Analyst, and Selam Kebrom, Research Associate,
ActionAid International USA

As the IMF/World Bank annual spring meetings get underway in Washington
DC, this issue of Policies & Priorities explores the contradiction
between the projected spending increases that will be needed to enable
countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the
actual constraints on spending that flow from the tight fiscal and
monetary policies in International Monetary Fund loan programs. A second
article reviews new reports from IMF that suggest some internal
rethinking of their restrictive policies.

For full briefing, click here:
http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/IFI_Spring_2006-color6.pdf

For updates and related stories throughout the IMF/World Bank spring
meetings, please view =93Special Focus--Fate of the Poor: the IMF and
World Bank Meetings=94

at  www.actionaidusa.org <http://www.actionaidusa.org/>_ _