By Sophie Edwards NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Fears that technological advances will wipe out jobs and worsen working conditions are “largely unfounded,”…
—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— October 9, 2018 Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal amittal@oaklandinstitute.org +1 510-469-5228 Oakland, CA—On the eve of the World Bank’s annual…
—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— October 2, 2018 Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal amittal@oaklandinstitute.org +1 510-469-5228 Oakland, CA—In the wake of last week’s deadly earthquake…
Elizabeth Fraser Last Friday, devastation ripped through Palu, Indonesia as both a massive 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the coastal…
Third World Economics 16 – 30 September 2018 Through its Enabling the Business of Agriculture programme, the World Bank is paving the…
February 14, 2018 Source: Center for Global Development Reasonable people can disagree about the usefulness of the World Bank’s country rankings. But…
April 20, 2018 Source: The Guardian Unions alarmed by suggestion that deep structural reforms are required to adjust to changing nature of…
February 5, 2018 Source: Center for Global Development While Modi has celebrated India’s rapid rise in the Doing Business rankings, the World…
ROME, Italy—April 3-5, 2018, hallways of the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) buzzed with over 700 representatives from government, civil society,…
Oakland, CA—As government officials from around the globe descend on Washington D.C. this week for the World Bank’s spring meetings, a new…
