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 548Gender WDR Limits, gaps, and fudgesThe 2012 World Development Report is a watershed moment: it is the first time that the World Bank, the world's largest and most influential development institution, has devoted its flagship publication to gender. Kate Bedford of the University of Kent argues that the report leaves the Bank failing to face up to its role in perpetuating policies that harm women, and is seriously limited in its approach to women's movements, markets, and households. read article... Complaint against the IFC in MozambiqueThe Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO), the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) accountability mechanism, has transferred a complaint over an IFC-supported project in Mozambique to its compliance function, which will assess whether the project has breached the IFC's performance standards. read article... New World Bank infrastructure strategy Paving over development?A World Bank infrastructure strategy update, developed because of a G20 push for more infrastructure investment, reaffirms the Bank's commitment to large-scale projects and scaled up private finance through public-private partnerships (PPPs, see Update 77), despite questions about bloated costs and development impact. read article... The World Bank and extractives: a rich seam of controversyAs World Bank projects fail to reduce corruption in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), International Financial Corporation (IFC) investments in extractives are provoking complaints and protests around the world. read article... On a carbon market mission The World Bank at the Durban climate summitWhile steaming ahead with new carbon market initiatives, the World Bank attracted further criticism and suffered potential setbacks on agriculture and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at the UN climate negotiations in Durban. read article... Green light for revised PforR, but concerns remainThe World Bank board has approved the controversial new Program-for-Results (PforR) lending instrument, with some concessions to criticism. read article... Questions hang over World Bank safeguard reviewThe World Bank has revealed that the planned period for updating its environment and social safeguard policies, which it aims to consolidate into one single policy, has been extended to December 2013 read article... World Bank-funded "toxic dumping ground"Ugandan newspaper New Vision called attention to the "horrific sanitation conditions" of a Bank-funded waterway in Uganda in November 2011 read article... Harvesting controversy World Bank's agriculture projects under scrutinyWhile the Bank prepares to revise its agriculture strategy, its focus on market liberalisation is criticised, its own complaints bodies issue damning reports on agriculture projects in Peru and Papua New Guinea, and critics fault its gender focus. read article... IMF from Argentina to Greece: similar but differentThe economic crisis in Argentina in 2001 and Greece today share both similarities and differences, so we should be wary of stretching the comparison. read article... |
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