Global civil society response gathers momentum. Civil society organisations around the world are decrying a leaked draft of the World Bank’s proposed new policies to avoid harmful impacts from the development projects that it finances. Despite earlier commitments by...
The way people perceive poverty is problematic. For years, popular media and advertising has made us believe that poverty is natural. It happens to people who don’t work hard enough. That’s not true. Poverty and income inequality are created by the few who have wealth...
Oakland, California–A new report from the Oakland Institute, Walking on the West Side: the World Bank and the IMF in the Ukraine Conflict, exposes how the international financial institutions swooped in on the heels of the political upheaval and are vying to...
As United Nations officials struggle to define the development priorities of the next 15 years, the UN Millennium Campaign, the World Bank, and many other organs of the development industry tell us that we are nearing the end of poverty. Yet, well over half of human...
Kenyan activists put up over 100,000 posters across Nairobi displaying the phone number of a free call to sign a petition against adding taxes on basic commodities. Garbage collectors spontaneously travelled door-to-door handing out the posters. No one knows who...
