{"id":4298,"date":"2014-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/world-bank-criticised-for-encouraging-land-grabs\/"},"modified":"2014-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"world-bank-criticised-for-encouraging-land-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/es\/world-bank-criticised-for-encouraging-land-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Criticised for Encouraging &#8216;Land Grabs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-subsection\"><div class=\"l-subsection-h\"><div class=\"l-subsection-hh g-html i-cf\"><p>Source: Samoa News<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date-display-single\" property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2014-05-07T00:00:00-07:00\">May 7, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Network on Globalization says the World Bank is encouraging Pacific governments to legalise land grabs under the pretext of making customary land more productive.<\/p>\n<p>The group says it is joining hundreds of organizations around the world in calling for the Bank to abolish its Doing Business ranking system.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank ranks developing countries on the so-called ease of doing business, with a high score indicating a country&#8217;s regulatory environment is conducive to business.<\/p>\n<p>But the group&#8217;s coordinator, Maureen Penjueli, says the Bank is encouraging governments to put the interests of foreign investors ahead of local landowners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right across the Pacific, customary land is still a key part of our land tenure system and so the World Bank&#8217;s Doing Business rankings is a key means to our governments&#8217; formal policies of freeing up land and so what we are seeing now is that it is opened up for resource grab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Network on Globalization co-ordinator, Maureen Penjueli.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/samoanews.com\/content\/en\/world-bank-criticised-encouraging-land-grabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Full Article at Samoa News <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Samoa News May 7, 2014 The Pacific Network on Globalization says the World Bank is encouraging Pacific governments to legalise land&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - 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