Our common interest: report of the commission for Africa

The Report presents a number recommendation as an agenda for progress concerning debt, aid, trade and HIV and Aids in Africa. The actions proposed by the Commission constitute a coherent package for Africa. The problems they address are interlocking. They are vicious circles, which reinforce one another and must be tackled together. Points the finger at the Bretton Woods Institutions for their role in African underdevelopment and calls for sweeping reforms. Singles out the IMF (International Monetary Fund) for forcing African governments to slash budgets for clinics and schools at a time when Asian countries were investing. Concludes that if World Bank and IMF reform does not materialize, "the international public will be forced to the conclusion that these institutions, established after the Second World War, are becoming increasingly irrelevant in our post-Cold War, post-apartheid, post-11 September world."