15 June 1999
“Foreigners may not know much about these parties, they may not care much, but at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter who wins as long as the IMF and World Bank are still calling the shots.”
Roland Haas, president of PT Lippo Investment Management, Jakarta, June 1999.
New BWP research finds the Word Bank's approach to Paris alignment is being used to a significant extent to impose ‘green conditionalities' on borrowing countries, especially in the Global South.
Understanding the Bank’s chequered history with public, community and civil society participation is key for understanding what is at stake and what to do next.
