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After 15 Years, World Bank’s Doing Business Report Still Missing the Mark

Source: Bretton Woods Project In October, the World Bank published its 15th Doing Business Report (DBR), Reforming to Create Jobs, noting that…

After 15 Years, World Bank’s Doing Business Report Still Missing the Mark

Source: Bretton Woods Project December 7, 2017 In October, the World Bank published its 15th Doing Business Report (DBR), Reforming to Create…

UN Expert Urges World Bank to Amend its Constitution to Effectively Advance Human Rights

Source: OHCHR September 14, 2017 GENEVA (14 September 2017) – The World Bank’s commitment to development can and should go beyond financing…

The World Bank’s Land Conference: Pro-Poor Bluff to Serve Neo-Colonialism

This March 20, 2017, the World Bank’s 18th Annual Land and Poverty Conference begins, featuring a session where Bank specialists will deliver…

Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s Scheme to Hijack Farmers’ Rights to Seeds

Oakland, CA—Ahead of World Bank’s release of the 2017 “Enabling the Business of Agriculture” (EBA) report this month, 157 organizations and academics…

Banking on Seeds: World Bank Sides with Agribusinesses Against Farmers’ Rights to Seeds

Around the world, farmers’ rights to seeds are imperilled by industry-pushed reforms to curtail the freedom to save, reuse, exchange, and sell…

Sementi Tradizionali Sotto Attacco

Source: Fondazione Nigrizia Onlus January 30, 2017 di Marta Gatti Spinti dal lobbing dei giganti dell’agrochimica, sempre più paesi africani introducono leggi…

Call to the World Bank: Enable Farmers, Not Agribusiness

Source: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy January 19, 2017 Shiney Varghese Ahead World Bank’s release of the 2017 “Enabling the Business…

World Bank Aims to Hand Over Seed Industry to Agribusiness

Source: teleSUR January 18, 2017 The world seed market currently lies in the hands of only six agribusinesses transnationals. A host of…

Calling on the World Bank to End the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA)

January 18, 2017 Dear Dr. Jim Yong Kim, We are writing today to urge you to put an end to the Enabling…