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
In the wake of the structural-adjustment program implemented by President Alberto Fujimori in August, 1990, the number of Peruvians living ...
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KEY MEMBERS OF CLINTON'S LATIN AMERICA POLICY STAFF RESIGN WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 3, 1996 Several key Latin America pol- icy ...
An Interview with Rigoberta MenchĂș 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 ...