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World Bank urged to axe its ‘doing business’ ranking

Source: Radio Australia February 10, 2015 Listen to the interview The ranking compares 189 nations, including most Pacific nations, on the ease…

Groups demand the U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank to Act to Phase Out Business Indicators

Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Contact: Anuradha Mittal, +1 510-469-5228, amittal@oaklandinstitute.org Aldo Caliari, +1 202-635-2757 x 134, acaliari@coc.org Groups demand the U.S. Executive Director…

Open Letter from Anuak Ethiopian Refugees to the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim

Source: January 31, 2015 Dear Mr. President, We are the Requesters, Anuak refugees and asylum seekers based in Kenya (Dadaab, Kakuma and…

The World Bank Is Refereeing a Race to the Bottom

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus December 5, 2014 The World Bank’s landmark annual publication, Doing Business, ranks countries around the world based on…

On 1st December 2014 the Our Land, Our Business campaign sent the following open letter to The World Bank

Oakland, December 1, 2014 World Bank, Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) Project Team Cc. Federica Saliola, Program Manager, World Bank Global…

World Bank rankings fail the needs of the Pacific – Pacific NGO

Source: Loop November 21, 2014 The recent praise handed down to some Pacific Islands from the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business rankings…

World Bank rankings fail the needs of the Pacific – Pacific NGO

Source: PACNEWS November 21, 2014 The recent praise handed down to some Pacific Islands from the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business rankings…

World Bank rankings fail the needs of the Pacific – Pacific NGO

Source: Mai Life November 21, 2014 The recent praise handed down to some Pacific Islands from the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business…

TakePart: “Is the World Bank Helping the Poor—or the World’s Banks?”

Source: Be Magazine November 21, 2014 TakePart) While business-suited officials of the World Bank Group hold their annual conference in Washington, D.C.,…

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…