FPIF Advisory Committee Member*

Salih Booker

Director, Global Rights
(Formerly of Africa Action)

Africa Action has released a position paper entitled: Hazardous to Health: The World Bank and IMF in Africa.

Hazardous to Health: The World Bank and IMF in Africa
Africa Action Position Paper
by Ann-Louise Colgan, Research Associate, Africa Action

"Africa Action calls for an end to World Bank and IMF policies that undermine health. This requires canceling the debts that prevent African governments from making their full contribution to addressing the health crisis. It also requires ending the imposition of harmful economic policies as conditions for future loans or grants."

The paper was released at a Press Briefing on the World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign on Thursday, April 18. Africa Action supports the World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign as a tool to exert pressure on the World Bank to cancel Africa's debt and end the imposition of economic policies harmful to health."

For entire report go to http://www.africaaction.org/action/campaign.htm

Commentaries and Other Pieces
Authored by This Adviser

Questions on Africa for Candidates and Policymakers
(October 2002)

Commentary on National Public Radio
(aired September 5, 2002)

Policy Report: Africa Policy Outlook 2002: Africa's Priorities Ignored Due To Washington's War on Terrorism
By William Minter and Salih Booker (February 2002)

Making a Statement in Durban
By Salih Booker (August 2001)

Africa: Off the Agenda?
By Salih Booker (January 2001)

The Coming Apathy: Africa Policy Under a Bush Administration
By Salih Booker (December 2000)

Other Articles by Other Africa Action Staff

Africa and the World Trade Organization: The Issues in Brief
By William Minter (November 7, 2001)

Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa
By Ann-Louise Colgan (April 2001)

Africa Overview
By William Minter (March 1997)

* Note from the FPIF Editor: Although the Advisory Committee shares FPIF's broad principles of internationalism, human rights, anti-militarism, and sustainable development, FPIF doesn't expect all members necessarily to agree with or endorse all the policy prescriptions that we publish.