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World Bank indicators rig the field against farmers’ rights

‘You don’t understand!’ was World Bank’s Grahame Dixie’s rebuttal of the accusation that the Bank bears heavy responsibility in the grabbing of…

Doing Business the World Bank way will only make you poorer. Not if you are a corporation.

“The World Bank’s true goal is money, power and deregulation,” said Lee Camp on the latest episode of his show Redacted Tonight.…

It is the World versus the Bank. Pick your side.

To all you dreamers, futurists, underpaid workers, landless, rebels, occupiers, un-occupiers and believers. Here we stand, in a thousand cities and towns…

These truths will show you the other side of the World Bank

It’s easy to get misguided by the well-intentioned altruism of global organisations like the World Bank. Starting this week (August 11-17),  teach-ins…

The Hidden Shallows of Global Poverty “Eradication” Efforts

A closer look at how the the UN’s New Sustainable Development Goals are being framed and what we must do to challenge…

The hidden hands behind East-West tug of war in Ukraine

News from Brussels on July 28 and from Washington on July 29 that both the EU and US are stepping up sanctions on…

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

Oakland, California–A new report from the Oakland Institute, Walking on the West Side: the World Bank and the IMF in the Ukraine…

The World Bank’s Doing Business Rankings: Relinquishing Sovereignty for a Good Grade

Launched in 2003, the World Bank’s annual Doing Business (DB) ranking system rates 189 countries on the “ease of doing business” within…

What is World Bank’s Business with Agriculture?

How the Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture (BBA) Project Will Harm Smallholder Farmers In 2012, the G8 called for the World Bank…

World Bank ‘Development’ Driving – Not Solving – Inequality, Poverty and Concentration of Wealth

The thing about “international development” is that it’s a bit of a murky, catch-all term. It’s got a good feel to it…

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