1. We believe that as a consequence of the role played by the IMF, the two decades of economic recovery in Latin America have not been used to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable through a real strengthening of countries' economies. Their increasing national savings, a fruit of the sacrifice of their population, is the result of an accumulation process required by the IMF as a condition for receiving resources and as a guarantee for other loans from multilateral banks to fund their supposed economic development, which was largely subject to external conditions. Both the IMF and World Bank play a complementary role in the perpetuation of existing patterns of exploitation and benefit to a few, both on the global and local stage.
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2. We want deep reforms in the governance of International Financial Institutions and standards bodies - such as the Basel Committee on Banking Regulations. Now is the time to re-establish "Bretton Woods."
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3. We need a reform program for the IMF with an increase in quotas, particularly for key emerging economies, and a dilution of the veto power of the United States. A revamped IMF should be charged with monitoring the reflation program and receive expanded resources through the General Agreement to Borrow so that it can lend to the poorer emerging economies that are now short of bank finance.
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4. The developing countries are indispensable to overcoming the global crisis. To increase their resources and to introduce the beginnings of a new governance structure in the multilateral institutions we need to:
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4.1. Double the volume of SDRs (Special Drawing Rights), distributing them equally between the IMF and the multilateral banks
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4.2. Introduce a new voting structure that reflects the distribution of global economic activity for all decisions on the allocation of these new SDRs
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4.3. Introduce fast-track support for single issue policy changes undertaken by countries in support of fiscal, monetary or structural reforms that will build greater resilience for their economies in the current crisis.
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5. We believe the UN General Assembly, working with ECOSOC and other agencies in the UN family, such as the ILO, needs to take a lead role, in monitoring these multilateral financial institutions and bodies, their governance, their decisions, and their consequences, to assess broader social and economic impacts, including on growth, unemployment, and poverty. To fulfill these new responsibilities, there have to be reforms in the relationship between the UN General Assembly and the Bretton Woods, as well as regulatory institutions, to enhance the latter’s accountability to the international community.
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6. We want a complete reform of the International Institutions - the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization -, which must undergo a process of further democratization of their decision-making processes, a rethinking of their economic paradigms, absorbing the reality of poor countries and placing on top of all their actions and recommendations global human development. Always bearing in mind that their duty is to the governments and their citizens and not to private business interests.
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7. We want to replace institutions like the World Bank and the IMF with truly democratic international institutions that respect the United Nations Charter and all international agreements and treaties on Human Rights.
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8. We consider that Keynes's proposal on a World Trade Organization must be resumed, replacing the current World Trade Organization.
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9. We believe that the blackmailing powers of the Old Financial Architecture should be thwarted immediately, and that we need to channel all the new resources that have been already promised or given to the IMF through a new window. This new window would operate
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9.a. in emergency terms (cheap and agile),
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9.b. without the neoliberal adjustment conditionalities and
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9.c. with an alternative directory that would reflect a more democratic representation of the regions.
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10. We want the creation of an international observatory in order to evaluate, independently and without conflicts of interests, the management of international organizations. It would monitor the practice, responsibility and transparency of these institutions with a new approach to overcome such positions of dominance, the powers of veto, privileges and immunities, etc. these international institutions currently have.
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11. We believe that we need International Institutions capable of:
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11.a. Providing the necessary funds to ensure food security and the fight against AIDS globally (insignificant in comparison to the amount of funds used to ""rescue"" banks);
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11.b. Activating the Millennium Development Goals - especially the fight against poverty -, redefining terms and quantities and finally granting the aid for development promised, accompanied by the cancellation of countries' external debt to - among other positive aspects – make migration hereinafter voluntary;
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11.c. Convening a United Nations summit in which funds for the eradication of hunger will not be spared, as was done in 2005. (There are no other means to ""reduce hunger by half by 2015""!)
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11.d. Quickly considering the immediate implementation of formulas such as currency transactions taxes, recently proposed again, in a well-prepared presentation to the United Nations. It is contained in the Declaration on innovative sources for the financing of the “Initiative against Hunger and Poverty"" approved on September 24th 2008 in New York.
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11.e. Reducing the impact of natural disasters caused by the implementation of the United Nations' proposals of the decade (1989-1999) and recent provisions of the European Union (GAP), to avoid the effects of recurrent episodes (hurricanes, floods, fires, etc.) which are still, even in technologically developed countries, met with a total lack of preparation with high social vulnerability.
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11.f. Focusing on Africa, urgently eliminating the exploitation in Congo in the Kivu territory of Coltan (columbite-tantalite ore, used in computers and mobile phones), as well as situations such as Angola - with so many riches being exploited, with so much oil and carats being taken from its underground - whilst the population lives terribly, many on less than 2 dollars a day...
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the international financial institutions should work more democratically according to the aspirations of the masses especially, with least developed countries. they should not force the countries to reduse the subsederies for the poor masses rather they should compell the rulers to apply transparency and good governense in their countries. the Pakistan is the best example in this regards where the corruption is very high under the nose of the government but even then the IMF and other international financial institutions are injecting more funds through the corrupt rulers in the social life of Pakistanies.
Written by M.Sabir at 17 / 11 / 2010
Aquí mismo y en otras fuentes, he leído críticas bastante razonables dirigidas a los organismos internacionales. En lo personal, yo mismo en ciertos aspectos he escrito también criticando acción o inacción de las organizaciones intergubernamentales. Carlos Marx fue uno de los primeros en poner claramente en evidencia que la economía es un "producto histórico". Este analista político y combatiente social consideraba que la economía y que la propia estructura social son un "producto histórico", vale decir, dependen de la propia historia, dependen del propio devenir de los acontecimientos que obran como constructores de nuestras relaciones sociales. O sea por ejemplo, no hay un diseño económico ahistórico que pueda considerarse ideal u óptimo. Claro está, siempre es posible destruir con violencia, desechar todo lo anterior, e intentar construir algo nuevo, pero en lo personal prefiero rescatar los valores y los progresos logrados, y reformular o reestructurar a partir de lo logrado. Cierto, en buena medida las jerarquías y los técnicos de los organismos internacionales frecuentemente se han comportado hasta la fecha como un enorme y pesado aparato burocrático, pero veamos más allá de las apariencias, y analicemos las condiciones en las que esas estructuras internacionales deben operar. En ellas, siempre está pendiente el problema de los recursos, pues los aportes de los países miembro se retacean, se retrasan, se amenaza con una desafiliación, y entonces hay que negociar, desarrollar tal o cual reunión importante en tal o cual país en lugar de tal otro, como dulce para destrabar fondos, y un sinnúmero de otros desvíos y manejos que no enumero para no cansar a los lectores. Y por cierto, esta situación de dependencia de los organismos internacionales, les resta también independencia técnica, y les obliga a incursionar con fuerza en la diplomacia. Lo que en particular desde estas líneas propongo, es que los aportes obligatorios a los organismos internacionales se hagan de una manera similar al débito bancario automático, inserto este sistema en un nuevo ordenamiento financiero internacional basado naturalmente en una verdadera moneda internacional y no en las divisas de algunos países, basado en una nueva especie dineraria que en algunos de mis escritos me he atrevido a denominar "bancor telemático" o "bantel".
Written by J.Elissalde at 25 / 11 / 2010
TÓMESE NOTA: El mundo sensible y el ambiente social que nos rodea, no es algo dado desde toda una eternidad, y tampoco surgió de improviso por el juego de una serie de sucesivas mutaciones genéticas en la especie humana. El ambiente social de nuestros tiempos se fue construyendo poco a poco, producto de la industria y de los sucesivos estados sociales en los que para bien o para mal supimos organizarnos. Y en este sentido es que nuestra sociedad y la economía en ella aplicada son un producto histórico, son resultado de la propia historia, son consecuencia de las actividades de toda una serie de generaciones, cada una de las cuales se encarama sobre los hombros de la anterior. Y en el acierto o en el error, los humanos así seguimos desarrollado nuestra industria y nuestros intercambios, y en momentos especiales, y en momentos de quiebre, sabemos modificar nuestra operativa social de base con arreglo a las nuevas situaciones y a las nuevas necesidades.
Written by J.Elissalde at 25 / 11 / 2010


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