Social issuesCovers the impact of Bank and Fund work on people and people's rights. Includes: Human rights, indigenous peoples, education, health, gender, labour, nutrition, land reform, social impact assessment, displacement, Inspection panel (social claims) read more background... Items 1 to 10 of 461Meeting of UK NGOs and Susanna Moorehead, UK Executive Director to the World Bank, and Rachel Turner, Director of International Finance Department, DFID July 2010Notes of the meeting read article... Social insecurity The financialisation of healthcare and pensions in developing countriesThis paper aims to raise awareness of private financial institutions' influence on healthcare and pensions in developing countries. read article... Is IFC palm oil investment a foregone conclusion?The World Bank is currently undertaking a major review of its controversial engagement in palm oil production, but critics warn that consultation has been inadequate and that the Bank seems to have already decided to continue investment in the sector. read article... World Bank performance standards review reveals need to raise the barWith a review of the social and environmental performance standards of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) underway, reports from within the World Bank Group as well as civil society highlight the need for reform. read article... World Bank fails to focus on results in healthA newly published report adds to mounting criticism of the World Bank’s approach to health projects. read article... Debt crisis in Europe: Beware IMF bearing giftsThe descent of Greece into a sovereign debt crisis marks the first time a country that uses the euro has gone to the IMF. The fear of adverse market reaction has now moved Europe towards greater coordination and the G20 to argue against continued fiscal stimulus. read article... Shakira gets the wrong man?Colombian pop sensation ‘she wolf’ Shakira ended up in a February press conference with a World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, to launch her charity’s joint initative with the Bank on early childhood development in Latin America. read article... World Bank work on land supports "a new form of colonialism"A set of voluntary principles for agricultural investment in developing countries, launched by the World Bank and other institutions in April, veils the promotion of investors' interests at the expense of host populations, warn civil society groups. read article... World Bank engaged in controversial Ethiopian dam?In May, over 30 NGOs worldwide issued a letter telling IFIs, bilateral development agencies, and export credit agencies to stop investing in the Ethiopian hydropower project Gilgel Gibe III. read article... Gender: IFI neglect continuesGender Action and the Center for International Environmental Law published Speaking up for gender: A step-by-step guide to holding IFIs accountable. read article... |
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