World Bank staff calls for ‘open’ system of presidential selection

The move comes even as the global body called for nominations to select a new president after Jim Yong Kim resigned recently

Tajikistan launches new methodology to measure poverty

The World Bank and the Tajikistan government have been jointly collecting, analysing and reporting high-quality poverty data

The global green garb

Gay ire

Bad word

Vault the truth

World Bank sets up commission on poverty

Commission to present its report by April 2016

USA - all love lost

Neither the World Bank nor the US and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank …

The global environmental fiasco

After six meetings on how to restructure the Global Environment Facility, a consensus remains elusive.

How the World Bank ico-opts NGOs

Is the World Bank really working for the people?

Vizhinjam port contract goes to Adanis; Chandy calls all-party meet

Move follows Opposition parties levelling corruption charges against Congress-led Kerala government

Cash-strapped UN

The global godfather of nations - The United Nations Organization is bankrupt and counting its pennies

Inspecting the Inspection Panel

The big farce

The World Bank has once again come out defending its big dam-centered policies

Prude operator

World Bank's efforts to leverage more private investment may undermine development

Stingy lenders

World Bank and IMF oppose increasing debt relief to Africa

Partial relief

World Bank and IMF write off debts for impoverished nations

"A mining company is an elusive animal"

Roger Moody is the director of Nostromo Research, which  investigates mining practices around the world. A leading critic of  the …

Not taking a stand

Panel inspected

The inherently flawed investigation of Nepal's Arun III dam project has undermined the credibility of the World Bank's new Inspection Panel

Window without a green view

Critics question the degree of democracy and transparency involved in the Global Environment Facility's horsetrading of power between the North …

A matter of perception

The nature of the World Bank interest in air pollution in India

Advocacy groups pick holes in World Bank’s new safeguard policies

The new safeguard policies are allegdedly creating “loopholes" with vague language and more reliance on laws and standards of the borrower …

Seychelles launches world’s first sovereign blue bond

Proceeds from the bond will include support for the expansion of marine protected areas, improved governance of priority fisheries and the …

Targeting the World Bank

Bretton Woods institutions come in for a beating from a new coalition of NGOs