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People's Movement for Livelihood (Bangla)
MONGA: The Art of Politics of Dying (On Food, Trade and Globalization) by Ahmed Swapan Mahmud
Manual: Corporate Globalization, Agriculture and Trade (Bangla)
Jiboner Golpo (Bangla)
AMAR EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR (BOI MELA 2010)
VOICE will participate in the 2010 Amar Ekushey Book Fair held in Bangla Academy, Dhaka that will continue until February 28th. VOICE participated in the book fair, presenting about 50 items of its publications including books, reports, newsletters, posters and other publications. VOICE also keeps books and reports from national and international organizations with whom VOICE has been closely working.
The participation of VOICE in the Book Fair helps disseminate information valued by VOICE, more specifically around the issues of globalization, trade, aid effectiveness, ICTs and information rights, climate change, IFIs, food and agriculture and of politics. By participating in the book fair, VOICE is taking the opportunity to build a wider constituency and raise critical awareness among the stakeholders including teachers, students, politicians, researchers, citizen actors, NGOs, activists, researchers etc, around these issues.
VOICE publishes three books on the topic of international aid and its consequences on the Bangladesh economy
VOICE recently published three new English-language reports on the topic of international aid and its
consequences on the Bangladesh economy.
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Revealing PSI: People’s resistance against policy conditionalities of the IMF
Global Capital vs. Local Economy: Conditionalities of the IMF and Fiscal Reform
Breaking the Cycle of Neo-Liberal Economy: How the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Stand Against the People
Publications
VOICE, as a research organization, compiles and publishes several documents every year. These range from small pamphlets and info-briefs to detailed book-length documents, research and seminar papers, and annual reports. In addition, VOICE puts out two regular newsletters:
Golaghor ("seed house"), a quarterly newsletter on food and seed sovereignty issues in Bangla.
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AMAR EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR (BOI MELA 2008)
Breaking the Cycle of Neo-Liberal Economy: How the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Stand Against the People
SUMMARY - The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for the past few
decades, have provided third-world countries with loans and grants in
the name of such lofty pretexts as ‘poverty reduction’ and
‘international development’. These loans inevitably come tied with
conditions which hinder the country’s growth, a case of stepping on
someone’s chest even as they are being helped up.
The detrimental effects these conditions have had on Bangladesh are
immeasurable, but that does not mean they should pass unnoticed. VOICE
has published this report, a combination of media articles, two
insightful essays, and the summary of a seminar conducted by VOICE on
the eve of the WB-IMF Annual General Meeting held in Washington DC in
2007 on the subject of the subjugation of Bangladesh to World Bank and
IMF policies.
This report will examine the neo-liberal hegemony currently
ensnaring the country from different perspectives, and also stand as a
historical analysis of the role of IFIs in Bangladesh thus far.
Revealing PSI: People’s resistance against policy conditionalities of the IMF
SUMMARY - 
A Policy Support Instrument (PSI) is a policy consisting of abstract
terms and conditions.
Usually, high profile IMF and government
officials discuss such policies. Academics, researchers, and analysts
working on policy issues understand the salient points, but it is
extremely difficult for the general public to understand the logic and
loopholes of such a deal.
During the recent visit of the IMF delegation to Bangladesh, there
were significant discussions and debates around their PSI offer.
Different stakeholders emerged, voicing their concern about the issue
through the media and other outlets. Civil society members, activists,
business groups and the media in Bangladesh once again proved
themselves active in the resistance against IMF impositions. The news
media published reports, opinion, comments, and analysis on the issue,
raising awareness all around the country.
This report is as much a commentary as a compilation of
formerly scattered information about PSI, and has attempted to
demystify PSI going from the definition to the analysis. Different
reports and views of newspapers also help to shed light on the issue
and to document what happened with respect to the PSI agreement.