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Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
ICIJ
Article
2015
ICIJ The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
How not to grow a new town
Rush, Elizabeth
Article
2013
Le Monde diplomatique
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came th...
How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Chavkin, Sasha; Hallman, Ben; Hudson, Michael, Schilis-Gallego, Cecile; Shifflett, Shane
Article
2015
ICIJ The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the...
Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Guerra, Rene
Article
2015
TeleSUR
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salva...
World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
Dolack, Pete
Article
2017
The Ecologist
In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved i...
The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Yeoman
Article
2015
ICIJ - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or econ...
World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
Kushner; Langat, Anthony; Chavkin, Sasha; Hudson, Michael
Article
2015
ICIJ - The Interntional Consortium Of Investigate Journalists
In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank -- the planet's oldest and most powerful development lender -- has left ...

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Another world is possible if...
George, Susan
Book
2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.

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New Internationalist
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.


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