Letters
Lori Berenson As the parents of Lori Berenson, we would like to comment on the Taking Note editorial, "Lori Berenson ...
An Interview with Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Rigoberta Menchu Turn, a Quich6 Maya, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 in recognition of her work on behalf ...
Anti-Poverty Programs: Making Structural Adjustment More Palatable
Social-investment funds have been implemented regionwide to combat the rising poverty associated with structural adjustment. These funds do little, however, ...
Haiti: Disarmament Derailed
The disarmament process stopped before it actually started. Haiti's paramilitary and ex-military forces remain heavily armed, and ongoing impunity allows ...
Reviews
The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1992 by David Kunzle with an introduction by Miguel D'Escoto, University of California Press, 1995, ...
World Bank Education Policy: Market Liberalism Meets Ideological Conservatism
The theme of the Fifth Ibero-American Summit, held in the Argentine resort of Bariloche last October, was "Education and Development." ...
Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the South
The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) extol the importance of involving civil society in the projects that ...
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, ...
