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L’agriculture, un business comme un autre?

Source: La Libre October 17, 2014 MOVE WITH AFRICA – L’indicateur “Benchmarking the business of agriculture” classe les pays selon leur attractivité à…

Is the World Bank Helping the Poor—or the World’s Banks?

Source: Takepart October 11, 2014 by Vince Beiser While business-suited officials of the World Bank Group hold their annual conference in Washington,…

Africa: Global Protests Against World Bank

Source: allAfrica October 11, 2014 On October 10, 2014, NGOs, farmers’ groups, and indigenous organizations from across the world are coming together…

World Bank denounced

Source: ABS-CBN October 11, 2014 Members of environmental groups shout during a protest in front of the World Bank in Taguig City…

PA residents challenge EPA officials to drink fracked well water, bags searched at Metro in response

Source: DC Direct Action News October 11, 2014 On the 10th of October, anti-fracking activists and a resident of Dimock county in…

Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping lead march on World Bank

Source: DC Direct Action News October 11, 2014 On the 10th of October, Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir led a…

#WorldvsBank: a global day of action against the World Bank’s Doing Business Rankings.

#WorldvsBank: a global day of action against the World Bank’s Doing Business Rankings. On Friday October 10 Our Land Our Business, a…

World Bank in spotlight

Source: The Phnom Penh Post October 10, 2014 As the World Bank considers supplying fresh loans to Cambodia, a new study uses…

Farmers, Indigenous Peoples and NGOs Take to Streets in Ten Cities Demanding an End to World Bank’s Morally Bankrupt Development

Source: Standard Times Press Newspaper October 10, 2014 For Immediate Release: Wednesday October 8, 2014Farmers, Indigenous Peoples and NGOs Take to Streets in…

‘CREATIVE RESISTANCE’ PLANNED FOR ‘ANTI-POOR’ CONFAB

Source: Black Star News October 10, 2014 Oct. 6 (GIN) – Farmers, indigenous peoples and other social justice groups will be taking…