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Seattle Macroeconomic Literacy Training Resources
Inspired by a training organized by ActionAid International USA in Washington DC last year, Health Alliance International hosted a training to increase macroeconomic policy literacy on June 19-20, 2008. The training provided a basic understanding of the effect of International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies on health and social sector budgets in low income countries.
The training was led by three experts in global development policy: Rick Rowden, Senior Policy Analyst with Action Aid International USA based in Washington, DC; Brook Baker, Professor of Law at Northeastern University in Boston and member and policy advisor of the Health GAP Coalition; and James Heintz, Associate Director and Assistant Research Professor at Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Recent Updates
Following the training, attendees agreed to share information and engage in advocacy related to macroeonomic policies. If you are interested in joining the listserv, contact .
- Oct 2008: Read the op-ed published in the Cascadia Weekly (p. 6) about IMF gold sales, written by training attendees Beverly Rofkar, James Loucky and Shirley Osterhaus.
Conference Presentations & Background Materials
Video and audio recordings from the event will be posted as soon as they are available.PowerPoint Presentations
- The Long Road to Adequate and Sustained Donor Financing in Health (404KB)
- How the IMF Restricts Health/Education Sector Spending (279KB)
- Macroeconomic Alternatives & Financing of Public Services (238KB)
- IMF Policies and their Impacts on Health Financing (477KB)
Documents
- Financial Services Letter to IMF (PDF File, 69KB)
- International Poverty Centre Research Brief: Pro-Growth Alternatives for Monetary and Financial Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF File, 173KB)
- Literature Review: At what rate does inflation begin to hurt an economy’s long-term economic growth rates? (MS Word, 46KB)
- Over 120 International NGOs Call On IMF to Change Unnecessarily-Restrictive Fiscal and Monetary Policies to Enable Significant Increases in Public Spending on HIV/AIDS, Health and Education (MS Word, 76KB)
- The IMF Project: A Multi-Country Education & Advocacy Project (MS Word, 4.7MB)
- US NGOs Call on Congress to Require Changes in IMF Policies Before Any Gold Sales (MS Word, 52KB)
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Conference Video
Overview on Macroeconomic Policy Impacts on Health Budget & Spending in Developing Countries by Dr. Steve Gloyd, Executive Director, Health Alliance International.
If interested in viewing complete videos of the Macroeconomic Literacy Training Conference, please contact Meredith Fort.
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