In April, thousands of protesters gathered in Washington DC to close down the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.
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Ministers Support Protesters
Leaders attending the G77 meeting of developing countries in Cuba in April, also lent their support to the protests in Washington against the IMF and World Bank.
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Anti-IMF And Bank Protest Tear-Gassed
In Malawi in May, a peaceful official demonstration, led by the Congress of Trades Unions, against IMF and World Bank reform policies and calling for the government to consider peoples’ needs before conceding to donors’ demands was broken-up by police with tear gas.
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Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions And Global Social Movements
The first full-length study of relations between social movements and the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has just been published.
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Bankrupt the World Bank!
As 80% of the money the World Bank uses to make its loans actually comes from the sale of bonds to institutional investors (pension funds, universities, municipalities, etc.
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Project recognised in networking award
The Bretton Woods Project was first runner up in GreenNet’s Networker of the year award for its website, launched last year.
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Analysis
The power of World Bank knowledge
By Michael Goldman * For the enormous power and global reach the World Bank has…
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Toolkits for activists on the World Bank
Washington DC-based NGO Bank Information Centre (BIC) has produced toolkits to help citizens more effectively engage with and influence the World Bank.
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Bank/Fund videos wanted
Friends of the Earth International, one of the main organisers of the NGO events surrounding the Annual meeting of the World Bank and IMF, this September in Prague, is organising a two day video festival, where documentaries related to IMF/World Bank activities will be shown for a wide audience, connected with debates and presentations.
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Chad-Cameroon latest
The oil companies involved in the Chad- Cameroon oilfield and pipeline project have pulled out of the planned deal.
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21 July 2022
Ending “absolute immunity” for the International Finance Corporation: The legacy of Jam v. IFC
EarthRights International examines how the Jam v. IFC case has helped to shift the landscape of accountability for international financial institutions by successfully challenging their claim to “absolute” immunity in US courts, potentially opening IFC up to further legal challenges in future.
21 July 2022
The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2022
14 April 2022