Peru is to host 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, criticized for their record of lowering social and environmental conditions,...
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. The International Monetary...
If we draw a list of groups championing the ideology of neo-liberal capitalism, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) will find a place right at the beginning. Their poverty alleviation and development programmes have only created more poverty. Of...
The article originally appeared on Truthout on March 25, 2015 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...
This article first appeared in the February 2015 edition of Red Pepper ‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty February 2015 International...
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