After a four month delay, Asger Christensen, World Bank Task Leader for the India Coal Sector project replied to Minewatch in May saying that the Bank could not release the mid-term review of the project.
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Infrastructure
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World Bank Backs Czech Nuclear Power
A study released in April by Hnuti Duha (Friends of the Earth, Czech Republic) and the CEE Bankwatch Network found that World Bank resources “are directly supporting nuclear facilities in the Czech Republic”.
Infrastructure
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Pak Mun Dam Controversy Fuelled
The Thai authorities and the World Bank, the main funders for the Pak Mun dam project, hailed the dam as a big success, but the World Commission on Dams (WCD) recently released a critical evaluation.
Rights
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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.
Rights
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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.
Rights
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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.
Rights
Analysis
The power of World Bank knowledge
By Michael Goldman * For the enormous power and global reach the World Bank has…
Conditionality
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Korean workers lawsuit against IMF thrown out
A South Korean court has rejected a lawsuit filed by a group of labour unions against the IMF for alleged policy mistakes.
Rights
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Washington focus for globalisation protests
Activists from across the US will converge in Washington to protest at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.
Infrastructure
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IMF oil price increase fuels protests
Threats of oil prices rises sparked protests in Nigeria in December.
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