RHETORIC AND REALITY The World Bank's New Concern for the Poor

RHETORIC AND REALITY The World Bank’s New Concern for the Poor

After years of spreading the gospel that the revival of economic growth would be a cure-all for the region's ills, ...
In Pursuit of "Growth with Equity": The Limits of Chile's Free-Market Social Reforms

In Pursuit of “Growth with Equity”: The Limits of Chile’s Free-Market Social Reforms...

Because Chile's social policy remains subordinate to the logic of the marketplace, the government The 1990 inauguration of cdaIIfI.L President ...
Education Reforms Advocated by Teachers

Education Reforms Advocated by Teachers

Educators International and the Confederation of American Educators-the two organizations to which the majority of teachers in the Western world ...
Taking Note

Taking Note

Hard Liners Gain the Upper Hand in the U.S. and Cuba The February 24 downing of two light U.S. aircraft ...
Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the North

Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the North

In early October last year, over a thousand marchers left Dupont Circle and proceeded up Connecticut Avenue to the Washington ...
Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program

Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program

In the wake of the structural-adjustment program implemented by President Alberto Fujimori in August, 1990, the number of Peruvians living ...
Newsbriefs

Newsbriefs

KEY MEMBERS OF CLINTON'S LATIN AMERICA POLICY STAFF RESIGN WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 3, 1996 Several key Latin America pol- icy ...
Letters

Letters

Lori Berenson As the parents of Lori Berenson, we would like to comment on the Taking Note editorial, "Lori Berenson ...