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Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank

World Bank Turns Its Back on Rights Protections for the Poor

July 31, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
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.
Ideas

How do we talk about poverty?

July 30, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
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.
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank

The World Bank and the IMF Open up Ukraine to Western Interests

July 28, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
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 deregulate and throw open Ukraine’s vast agricultural sector to...
Ideas, Money

Are Economic Growth and Social Justice Incompatible?

July 15, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
This is an excerpt from a discussion between Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics (LSE) and Alnoor Ladha of /The Rules that took place at the LSE in early 2014.
Commons, Ideas, It's The World Vs. The Bank

The new shock doctrine: ‘Doing Business’ with the World Bank

May 2, 2014 by Jason 1 Comment
A yearly World Bank report encourages countries to undertake extreme deregulation.
Artivism Lab
Artivism Lab, Ideas

Kenya: Artivists versus the state

April 29, 2014 by Alnoor No Comments
The role of a new type of activist – the ‘artivist’ – is becoming increasingly important in Kenya and beyond.
Commons, REDD, Themes

California air resources board say no to REDD

April 1, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
Please cancel the Rice Cultivation Projects Compliance Offset Protocol and all existing and proposed Compliance Offset Protocols under the Cap-and-Trade Regulation.
Ideas, Money, Themes

It’s Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry

February 24, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
It’s about time we called out the great myth that mass poverty just is, as if it were a natural part of some universal moral order. Such thinking is both profoundly untrue and disastrously misleading.
Ideas, Money

‘Free trade’ and the death of democracy

February 21, 2014 by Jason No Comments
“Free trade”. The term itself is a trap — a brilliant framing device that neatly neutralises opposition. If you take a stand against free trade you appear to be taking a stand against freedom itself, which is clearly not a tenable position. In fact, in recent decades the term “free...
Globalization - what does it mean?
Money

Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich ones

February 18, 2014 by Jason No Comments
The narrative that poverty rates are declining and that extreme poverty will soon be eradicated has a tremendous amount of institutional backing; it is supported by the world’s most powerful governments and promoted through the United Nations Millennium Campaign. But this narrative is misleading: poverty is not disappearing as quickly...
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