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FROM POVERTY TO POWER155 UN OCHA (2007) ‘Israeli-Palestinian Fatalities since 2000: Key Trends’.156 UN OCHA (2007) ‘The Humanitarian Impact on Palestinians of IsraelisSettlements and Other Infrastructure in the West Bank’. See also M. Asser(2007) ‘Obstacles <strong>to</strong> peace: water,’ BBC Online,http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6666495.stm. Israel takes 80 per cen<strong>to</strong>f the ground water and also surface water from the Jordan River, equating <strong>to</strong>about 90 per cent of available water resources.157 Human Security Centre (2006) ‘Human Security Briefing 2006’.158 C. Cramer (2006).PART 5: THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM1 President Amadou Toumani Touré, opening speech at a DevelopmentCooperation Forum in Washing<strong>to</strong>n, cited in <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2006)‘Kicking the Habit’.2 <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2006) ‘Kicking the Habit’ op. cit.; <strong>Oxfam</strong> International(2007) ‘Pricing Farmers out of Cot<strong>to</strong>n’; Direction de ProductionAgricole/Compagnie Malienne de Développement des Fibres Textiles(CMDT), estimates as at 31 December 2007.3 One exception is the arm of the World Bank that lends <strong>to</strong> low-income countries,the International Development Association (IDA). Technically, this has adifferent structure from the main board of the Bank, and poor countries get41 per cent of the vote in decisions made by the IDA board. However, only afew of these countries are involved in setting the agreements that decide theIDA’s policies, a process that takes place every three years. Here, as everywhereat the IFIs, it is the large donors who really make all the significant decisions.4 N. Woods (2006).5 N. Woods (2007).6 World Bank (2007) World Development Indica<strong>to</strong>rs 2007.7 J. Stiglitz (2006).8 J. Williamson (2003).9 The conclusions can be found on the SAPRI website (www.saprin.org).According <strong>to</strong> the document summarising the project’s findings, even thoughthe Bank funded the exercise, it ‘went <strong>to</strong> extraordinary lengths <strong>to</strong> bury SAPRIand its findings within the institution, as well as <strong>to</strong> lower its profile <strong>to</strong> theoutside world. After insisting on joint actions throughout the exercise,management decided <strong>to</strong> write its own final report, which focused as much onits own in-house research as on SAPRI field work…At the conclusion of theforum, it immediately closed down the SAPRI process without any commitment<strong>to</strong> follow-up or any trace of the multi-year SAPRI analysis in any of itsinternal documents’.10 Agricultural liberalisation played a part in all major World Bank lendingduring the 1990s (see for example Fiscal Restructuring and DeregulationProgrammes 1–3). Lending conditions relating <strong>to</strong> agriculture, for examplethe abolition of the state marketing board in Zambia and the reform andprivatisation of the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation(ADMARC) in Malawi, also played a part in IMF lending during this time.The sequence of agricultural liberalisation in Zambia is detailed inN. McCulloch et al. (2000). The main lending instruments were the Policy462

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