Introduction -- 1. The ethic of solidarity from 1980 to 1989 -- 2. The eclipse of solidarity after 1989 -- 3. Poverty in Poland after 1989 : empirical signs of the failure of the revolution -- 4. Recovering and applying an ethic of solidarity to Polish poverty -- 5. Freedom and participation as...

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al. (2000) as well as its sub-indexes, using a panel of 85 countries observed between 1970 and 1997. With respect to the Bank, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact...