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Jo Marie Griesgraber is the Executive Director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, a Washington-based international network of activists and researchers concerned with reforms of the international financial architecture. Previously, Dr. Griesgraber was Director of Policy at Oxfam America where she supervised advocacy programs on international trade, humanitarian response, global funding for basic education and extractive industries.Dr. Gunter is an international scholar in development economics. His areas of expertise include development macroeconomics, debt sustainability analysis, and the social impact of globalization. He is also interested in analyzing poverty reduction policies, macroeconomic development strategies, and the economic challenges of climate change.

• Introduction1. The Challenge of Africa`s Socioeconomic DevelopmentOwodunni Teriba2. An Alternative to Structural AdjustmentC.P. Chandrasekhar3. The World Bank's Focus on PovertyBarend A. de Vries4. Looking Before they Leap: Environmental and Social Impact AssessementJacklyn Cock and Eddie Webster5. Human Rights, Democracy and Good Governance: Stretching the World Bank's Policy FrontiersDavid Gillies6. Foreign Assistance as Catalyst for Domestic Coalition BuildingDaniel C. MilderBibliographyGlossaryName IndexSubject IndexABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSOwodunni Teriba is in the UN Economic Commission for Africa, where he has been Chief of the Socio Economic Research Division since 1989 in Addis Ababa. C P Chandrasekhar is Associate Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.Barend de Vries is retired from the World Bank where he worked from 1956 to 1984 as an economist and chief of division in Latin America. Eddie Webster is Professor and Head of departmenrt of Sociology at the University of Witswatersrand South Africa. Jacklyn Cock is Professor of Sociology also at the University of Witswatersrand.David Gillies has been a Consultant for the North South Institute, the Canadian Development International AgencyRETHINKING BRETTON WOODS SERIESVolume I. Promoting Development: Effective Global Institutions for the Twenty–first CenturyVolume II. Development: New Paradigms and Principles for the Twenty–first CenturyVolume III. The World Bank: Lending on a Global ScaleVolume IV. The World's Monetary System: Towards Stability and Sustainability in the Twenty–first CenturyVolume V. World Trade: Toward Fair and Free Trade in the Twenty–first Century