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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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In Latin America and Beyond, Another World Is Still Possible

April 11, 2016 by Guest No Comments

For those who witnessed the collapse of Argentina in 2001 with millions of citizens taking to the streets to reject neoliberal policies, the recent presidential victory of right wing business tycoon Mauricio Macri may seem incomprehensible.

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REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

December 28, 2015 by Guest No Comments

One of the reasons many people in Kuna Yala haven’t embraced the REDD+ program has to do with the fact that Panama’s negotiations happened behind closed doors. In April 2007, without first consulting with the Kuna, representatives of the Panamanian government met with World Bank officials in Berlin to hammer...

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Could you live on $1.90 a day? That’s the international poverty line

November 2, 2015 by Jason 2 Comments

Nothing has actually changed in the real world, of course; there are just as many poor people as there were before. But the development industry has been happy to take the new story on board, claiming gains against poverty that haven’t actually happened. The NGO community is celebrating the fact...

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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, 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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The death of international development

March 11, 2015 by Jason Hickel 9 Comments

‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty

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World Bank sides with agribusinesses against farmers and Indigenous communities

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

In Latin America and Beyond, Another World Is Still Possible

REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

Could you live on $1.90 a day? That’s the international poverty line

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

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

The World Bank Displaced a Population Roughly the Size of Berlin

The World Bank, poverty creation and the banality of evil

The death of international development

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