At the United Nations Rio+20 conference on sustainable development held in Brazil in late June, the World Bank promoted its 'green growth' approach despite concerns from civil society groups.
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Access for the poor?
As the G20 and the World Bank continue their push for increased investment in large-scale public-private led infrastructure projects, further scrutiny of the Bank's track record puts its strategy in question.
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Accountability squandered?
Despite a 2011 victory in Cambodia, where a mass eviction in the centre of Phnom Penh was halted and remaining affected families finally gained legal title to the land they had been wrongly denied under a World Bank project, recent arrests have put justice in jeopardy and led to calls for a continued lending freeze by the Bank.
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EIR + 10
Minutes of afternoon sessions of extractives conference, Washington DC, 23 April 2012
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Safeguards in a Changing Landscape
Minutes of safeguards meeting, Washington DC, 21 April 2012
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Lessons from IEG's Cluster Review of IFC-supported Extractive Industries Projects
Minutes of IFC and extractives meeting, Washington DC, 21 April 2012
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Supporting Social Accountability for Better Results
Minutes of World Bank Social accountability plenary, Washington DC, 19 April 2012
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Development Policy Lending (DPL) Retrospective consultation
Minutes meeting, Washington DC, 18 April 2012
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'Leveraging' private sector finance
The notion that public investments should be used to 'leverage' additional investments from private actors is increasingly used in a variety of development finance forums, including aid, development finance, agriculture and, in particular, climate finance. The World Bank has become one of the leading proponents of this concept, though nowhere has it spelled out clearly what it means by 'leverage' or how it should be measured.
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UK civil society meeting UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs
Notes of a meeting with UK executive director to the IMF Alex Gibbs in April 2012
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