{"id":1847,"date":"2012-01-10T00:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2012-01-24T17:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:42:59","slug":"africas-development-the-world-bank-proposes-a-new-instruments-program-for-result-pforr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Africa&rsquo;s Development: The World Bank proposes a New Instruments: Program-for-Results (PforR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Map-Africa-jan-2012.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1876\" title=\"Map- Africa jan 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Map-Africa-jan-2012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>Can we trust the World Bank again? In the 1980s, the Structural Adjustment Programs were announced as final remedies for Africa&rsquo;s under-development\u00a0disease. Today, we all know the result. There is no comment to be done anymore. Even the FAO and other United Nations&rsquo; agencies have reported on\u00a0damages\u00a0caused by Structural Adjustment Programs in developing societies. States&rsquo; capabilities to achieve a minimal food security for their citizens have been broken through imposed privatizations. Social assistance programs to the most vulnerable social categories have been cancelled. The public sector in its symbolic dimension have been\u00a0destroyed. The consequences of those imposed policies are obvious: increase in child mortality rate, increase of the number of HIV-infected persons, massive emigration of young\u00a0Africans, brain drain, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u00a0Bank reappears on the international arena with another instrument meant to provide more results, more\u00a0accountability and more sustainability\u00a0in funds receiving countries. The Vice- President of the Bank explains in the video tape below how effective the Program-For-Result&rsquo;s instrument will be in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the Bretton Woods conferences of summer 1944 which lead to the creation of the World Bank and attached financial agencies, Africa has experienced no other situation than civil wars, hunger, starvation and now HIV-AIDS. The World Bank has got enough time to apply all their policies. It has failed in securing minimal food security for poor Africans. Instead of\u00a0acknowledging the damages caused by wrong policies and then publicly apologize, a new instrument for the financing of development projects is rather proposed. Should\u00a0we trust the bank again?\u00a0Let&rsquo;s us listen to Mr. Joachim von Amsberg.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/c.gigcount.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.11NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEzMjYyMzg*NzU1ODMmcHQ9MTMyNjI*MTYxODM5MSZwPSZkPSZnPTImbz*1YTM1YWZkZjBiMzc*YWM2YWI5ZTMwNzM1\/ODYwYTJhMSZvZj*w.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><object id=\"kaltura_player_1326227680\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/0_acm5chae\/uiconf_id\/4782181\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"\" \/><embed id=\"kaltura_player_1326227680\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/0_acm5chae\/uiconf_id\/4782181\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashVars=\"\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\">video platform<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_management\">video management<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/solutions\/video_solution\">video solutions<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_publishing\">video player<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For details:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/siteresources.worldbank.org\/EXTRESLENDING\/Resources\/Program_for_Results_policy_paper1.pdf\">http:\/\/siteresources.worldbank.org\/EXTRESLENDING\/Resources\/Program_for_Results_policy_paper1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we trust the World Bank again? In the 1980s, the Structural Adjustment Programs were announced as final remedies for Africa&rsquo;s under-development\u00a0disease. Today, we all know the result. There is no comment to be done anymore. Even the FAO and other United Nations&rsquo; agencies have reported on\u00a0damages\u00a0caused by Structural Adjustment Programs in developing societies. 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