Word: basic
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...talking merely about a violation of "the father's rights." That's a legalism that assumes Juan Miguel Gonzalez to be as selfish, as narcissistic as most Americans have become in asserting their "rights." I am speaking of something deeper, more basic, more humanly essential--the father's love, his connection with his son. If the boy has a basic right, it is the right to his father...
...protesters represent a diverse set of interests, opinions and solutions. And their basic premise - that the architecture of the international finance and trade systems is in dire need of overhaul - has plenty of adherents on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. But while everyone from President Clinton and World Bank chairman James Wolfenson to Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader may agree on the need for change, there's little accord on what should be changed...
...assistance, though, comes at a price. The fund's basic operating premise is that policy adjustments are as important as funds in turning around struggling economies. It therefore requires beneficiaries of its loans to adopt a set of policies in line with the fund's "Washington Consensus" - cutting government spending, opening up markets to foreign trade and investment and adopting the free market principles that have prevailed in the U.S. over the past two decades. Loans are typically disbursed in stages, with IMF officials measuring compliance with the fund's terms...
...Clinton administration accepts the basic premise and function of the IMF, but believes the institution is too bureaucratic, inefficient and insensitive to the specifics of crisis situations that erupt periodically. They want the institution reformed to make it more transparent and more responsive to the fast-changing needs of the global financial system, and more sensitive to the humanitarian dimension of currency collapse in developing countries...
...paying the interest owed. It's a point of consensus now between all but the most diehard conservatives that without significant debt relief, billions of the world's poorest people will remain mired in poverty. Not only is the debt devouring resources that could be used for funding basic health, nutrition and education where it's most desperately needed; most of those countries aren t showing signs of turning their economies around to the extent that would ever make the debt collectible...