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... BriefingsThe World Bank and transportGiven that the World Bank's primary activity in its first decades of operation was financing infrastructure projects, the fact that the transport sector is the single largest sector for Bank lending should come as no surprise. However with the prevalence of concerns about underinvestment in social sectors, transport lending was on the decline in the late 90s and early part of this century. Now the pendulum is swinging back and transport sector lending is on the rise in both the public and private sector arms of the Bank. read article... Facilitating whose power? WB and IMF policy influence in Nigeria's energy sectorDespite rhetoric to the contrary, the World Bank's energy portfolio still fails to reap the double dividend of renewable energy technologies that would tackle both energy poverty and climate change. Nigerian economic policies shaped by World Bank and IMF recommendations, policy agreements and conditionality have so far lead to a dysfunctional electricity privatisation process, a heavy and as yet unfulfilled reliance on reform of the gas sector, and the failure to make any widespread practical progress on pro-poor, decentralised renewable energy read article... The World Bank and healthIn the last five years the global system for channelling development finance to the health sector has changed radically, causing the Bank to seriously re-examine its role in health finance. This article covers the who, what, where and how much of the World Bank's work with in the health sector. read article... Items 1 to 10 of 440Farming furore: World Bank launches new agriculture fundThe Bank’s new multi-billion dollar agriculture trust fund has got off the ground while its recent agriculture strategy signals a renewed attempt to push the controversial policies of the 2008 World Development Report. read article... World Bank's water privatisation slammedIndian NGO Manthan Adhyayan Kendra has updated its book Water: Private, Limited. read article... Bankspeak of the year 2009Annual Bretton Woods Project award for the most incomprehensible or absurd use of language in a Bank or Fund document or speech. read article... Compensation for anti-IFI protestorsThe city of Washington has agreed to pay $13.7 million to 700 protestors and bystanders mistreated by police during demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2000. read article... World Bank moving backwards on gender?An evaluation of the World Bank’s progress on gender suggests that the Bank may actually be going backwards in some areas. read article... The World Bank and climate negotiations: updates from CopenhagenNews and analysis from in and around the UN climate talks in Copenhagen - frequently updated. read article... IFC lends a hand in great "land grab"As the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, announces plans to increase investment in agribusiness by up to 30 per cent in the next three years, NGO reports shed light on the IFC's role in 'land grabs' and flaws in its approach to the food crisis. read article... CSO Townhall meeting Istanbul, 2 October 2009Notes from the CSO townhall meeting with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Robert Zoellick read article... World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2009Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly. read article... Meeting on the World Bank between UK NGOs and Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development 16 September 2009Minutes of a meeting between Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, and UK NGOs, 16 September 2009 read article... |
Articles: 2736 Related itemsEvents
ResourcesIEG gender evaluation 28 January The IMF, the global crisis and human resources for health 21 January Education for all - Global monitoring report 2010 19 January Report on the world social situation 2010 15 January Water: Private, Limited 15 January The deadly ideas of neoliberalism 15 December Concern over IMF impact on health spending 11 December Bridging the divide 17 November Land Centre for Human Rights website 16 November Newswire |
home | subscribe | donate | search | help | contact
RSS.91: highlights | newswire |
validate: | XHTML | CSS | RSS | 508
powered by Action Apps | hosted by GreenNet | Credits
