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World Bank sides with agribusinesses against farmers and Indigenous communities

April 21, 2017 by Guest 2 Comments

As the World Bank Group’s spring meetings get underway in Washington, DC, the Bank’s complicity in corporate grabbing of land and natural resources around the world has become more blatant than ever.

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With a little help from Bill Gates, the World Bank creates a new aid conditionality

April 27, 2016 by Guest 1 Comment

With $43.5 billion in assets, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a major player in the field of international aid. Seated next to the World Bank President, Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, outlined three game-changers to ensure development. First, donors need to be constant in their...

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Peru, the poster child for the World Bank in Latin America

October 6, 2015 by Guest 2 Comments

Peru is the host of the 2015 World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings, taking place in Latin America for the first time in over 40 years. The two Bretton Woods institutions, criticised for their record of lowering social and environmental conditions, seek to showcase Peru as a “success” of...

The World Bank meeting is happening in Peru

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Civil Society Comes Together in Latin America to Challenge the World Bank’s Annual Meetings

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Civil society organisations, Indigenous communities, and social movements come together to challenge the World Bank’s neoliberal agenda, which has caused massive environmental destruction and social distress on the Latin American continent.

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The World Bank Displaced a Population Roughly the Size of Berlin

April 28, 2015 by Swati No Comments

Alnoor Ladha talks to The Real News about how the World Bank and the IMF have always facilitated interests of western corporations.

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The World Bank and the Battle for the Future of Farming

April 20, 2015 by Martin Kirk No Comments

The article originally appeared on Common Dreams on 17th April 2015. Reach the author on Twitter at: @martinkirk_ny. There is a battle raging...

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The World Bank, poverty creation and the banality of evil

March 26, 2015 by Alnoor No Comments

This week, the World Bank is convening its 16th annual "Conference on Land and Poverty," which brings together corporations, governments and civil society groups to ostensibly discuss how to "improve land governance."

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Fighting for land rights in India

March 19, 2015 by The Rules No Comments

Rajagopal P.V., President and founder of Ekta Parishad talks about the growing protests against the new Land Acquisition Ordinance passed by the Indian government.

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The World Bank’s sham conference on land and poverty

February 18, 2015 by The Rules No Comments

The big question is whose interests the World Bank really serves. While they spend considerable time and money painting themselves as champions of the poor, the Bank has a battery of practices and policies that suggest a very different truth.