The World Bank has decided to reengage with Bangladesh's Padma bridge project after it suspended its promised $1.2 billion loan last year over allegations of corruption in the consultant selection process
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Notes of meeting between UK Executive Director to World Bank Susanna Moorehead and UK civil society
Civil society organisations met UK Executive Director to the World Bank Susanna Moorehead and staff from the Department for International Development to discuss IDA, education finance, infrastructure finance, fragile states, agriculture and land, Doing Business rankings, Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia.
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IFI re-engagement in Burma
Minutes of Burma and IFIs meeting, Washington DC, 18 April 2012
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New gender IFI watcher network launched
US NGO Gender Action has launched a new Global Gender IFI Watcher Network, which aims to allow "large numbers of activists to collectively hold IFI investments accountable to prevent negative gender impacts and ensure positive gender outcomes".
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New claims of rights abuses in World Bank-funded 'land grabs'
As the World Bank held its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty in April, campaigners accused it once again of facilitating and legitimising 'land grabs' that harm local communities.
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Kosovo electricity grid privatisation to be audited by CAO
A complaint filed by Kosovo's Independent Energy Union (SPEK) with the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, the accountability mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the World Bank's private sector arm), about a 2009 advisory project by the IFC for the privatisation of Kosovo's electricity grid has been accepted for a full audit.
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World Bank rejected by Indian NGOs
An early June statement from 26 social movements and NGOs in India have called the World Bank's plans for civil society consultation on the Bank's country assistance strategy (CAS) for India a "farce".
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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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World Bank's 'green growth' approach denounced
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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Parliamentarians call World Bank and IMF policies "unfair" and "ill-intentioned"
At an assembly held in Kampala in early April, IPU delegates criticised World Bank and IMF policies for being "unfair, non-transparent and ill-intentioned," and described how minimal parliamentary oversight hinders national ownership of development.
