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Impoverishing a Continent:

The World Bank and the IMF in Africa

By Asad Ismi

ISBN 0-88627-373-0 July 2004

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About the author

Asad Ismi is a writer on international politics specializing in U.S. policy towards the Third World and

the role of Canadian corporations there. The author of 90 articles, seven reports and a book, he has been

published in 21 magazines including CCPA Monitor, Z Magazine, Covert Action Quarterly,, Briarpatch,

and This Magazine. He has written reports for the Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Labour Congress,

Communications, Energy and Paper Workers Union, MiningWatch Canada, the Halifax Initiative Coa￾lition and the NGO Working Group on the EDC. His reports include the ground-breaking Profiting

from Repression: Canadian Investment in and Trade with Colombia. He is winner of a 2003 Project Cen￾sored Award for his article “The Ravaging of Africa” (Monitor, October 2002) which was partly ex￾cerpted from this report. For his publications visit www.asadismi.ws

This report was commissioned by the Halifax Initiative Coalition (www.halifaxinitiative.org ) but does

not necessarily reflect its views.

Impoverishing a Continent:

The World Bank and the IMF in Africa

By Asad Ismi

ISBN 0-88627-373-0

July 2004

$10.00