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Mining conference

A World Bank conference this July in Padang, Papua New Guinea, discussed “mining and the community in South-East Asia” but many NGOs known to represent mine-affected people were not invited.

15 September 1998

IFI governance

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IFC slammed by Anthropologists Association

In April Jane Hill, President of the American Anthropological Association, wrote a strong letter to Bank Group President James Wolfensohn and Carol Lee, IFC Vice President and General Counsel.

15 April 1998
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World Bank & IMF in the news

Conditionality

Analysis

28 September 2023

The World Bank’s water and sanitation policies in Tunisia

Transnational Institute

Social services

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27 September 2023

Don’t count on PPP solutions

Inter Press Service

Finance

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27 September 2023

World Bank chief sees $100 bln-plus lending boost from capital moves

Reuters

Conditionality

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25 September 2023

IMF: Austerity loan conditions risk undermining rights

Human Rights Watch
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Anti IMF loan protest in downtown, Cairo, 2012. Credit: Gigi Ibrahim / Flickr
27 September 2023

Financialisation and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

This briefing explains how the IMF and World Bank have driven the financialisation of MENA states, and the pervasive negative effects this has had on the region’s societies and economies.

Cover of the Summer Observer 2023
19 July 2023

The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2023

3 July 2023

Civil Society calls for rethink of World Bank’s ‘evolution roadmap’ as part of wider reforms to highly unequal global financial architecture

Joint civil society briefing paper highlights concerns with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, and provides a series of recommendations for a Roadmap that prioritises people, participation and the planet over profit and economic growth.

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