According to a recent official report of the OECD, the poor and very indebted countries are poorer today than twenty years ago. A second fact is that in the 1980's - twenty years ago - international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the WTO started a policy of loans in favor of least-developed countries (LDCs) in exchange of the liberalization of their economies. Can we really link these two facts? We want to discuss the methods of this cooperation by linking the direct consequences in LDCs. First, let us specify that the debate is not about contesting the international aid itself. We want to applause the fact that cooperation exists. Rather it is all about analyzing its means and its efficiency, because the real results can be seen near the first concerned: the LDCs inhabitants, not in the governments' speeches or the World Bank accomplishment of its purposes. Thus we will prove that nowadays, cooperation for LDCs' development is often inappropriate, unsuitable or carried out for profitable reasons.
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