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Neoliberalism for All: The World Bank’s Doing Business 2017

Alice Martin-Prével, Frederic Mousseau “Equal Opportunity for All” subtitles the annual Doing Business report released last month by the World Bank. The…

Undemocratic and Unsustainable, the World Bank’s Vision for Agricultural Development Harms the Poorest

Alice Martin-Prével As the World Bank’s Annual Meetings get underway in Washington, DC, a crucial theme is noticeably missing from its seminar…

Farms to Plantations: The West’s Corporate Business Plan for Agriculture Across Africa

> Source: This Is Hell! June 15, 2016 Displacing pastoralists, displacing smallholder farmers, arresting and charging them as terrorists if they protest…

Bill Gates Supports Destructive, Corporate Africa Agenda: Study

Source: teleSUR May 24, 2016 A new report exposes how Western AID agencies including Bill Gates’ are supporting controversial agribusiness policies in…

Five Western Donors Shape a Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture

Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute amittal@oaklandinstitute.org, + 1 510 469-5228 Oakland, CA—The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda…

Opinion: World Bank Reinvents Tainted Aid Program for Ethiopia

Source: IPS – Inter Press Service March 29, 2016 Elizabeth Fraser I was taught that responsibility means admitting your mistakes and being…

Under New Disguise World Bank Still Condones Land-Grab and Displacement in Ethiopia–Report

Source: BurkinaStyle March 21, 2016 Moral Bankruptcy: World Bank Reinvents Tainted Aid Program for Ethiopia, a new report released today by the…

World Bank Resurrects Program Tied to Evictions, Study Claims

Source: ICIJ March 21, 2016 Sasha Chavkin A $600 million World Bank loan to Ethiopia’s authoritarian government lacks proper oversight and “reinvents”…

Failing to Address Land Rights Violations Caused by Its Own Programs, the World Bank Launches Its 17th Conference on Land and Poverty

By: Alice Martin-Prével The 17th World Bank “Conference on Land and Poverty,” bringing together governments, academics, corporations, and NGOs, gets underway on…

Why the World Bank Is Missing the Point on Agricultural Development

By: Alice Martin-Prével Agricultural development is central to addressing some of the biggest challenges today: climate change, hunger, poverty, need for rural…

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