Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers
Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, has won a major …
‘Separate power feeders can greatly improve rural electrification’
Over 65 years after Independence, nearly half of the 800 million people living in rural India are yet to get access to electricity. A major …
Opening up, but tread softly
April 2003 saw two diverse regions in India take a similar decision. Both partially opened the door to tourism in hitherto protected belts. One …
Back To Beginning
Afghanistan, the badland of international politics, faces its toughest challenge: life and peace. Two decades of war, six months of non-stop …
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
‘Cancel all debt’: Activists disrupt IMF, World Bank annual meet
Call for reparations as solution for stabilising global economy during debt restructuring panel
India still among countries with poor access to banking: Report
More than half of population without access to banking lives in 7 developing countries: World Bank
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 environmental fiasco
After six meetings on how to restructure the Global Environment Facility, a consensus remains elusive.
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 …
India’s poverty reduction slowing down since a decade
The world finally has an assessment of India’s poverty level in absence of an official one for the last 10 years. It increases global …
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
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 …
Prude operator
World Bank's efforts to leverage more private investment may undermine development
"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 …
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 …
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Wake Up World Bank
Absolute immunity leads to impunity, and that foments lack of transparency and the reluctance to be held accountable
'Focus on data collection practices that capture income volatilities, little data'
Experts exchange ideas and research findings at a conference on development economics organised by the World Bank
Serving notice on Indian forests
The World Bank and other agencies funding forestry projects in India are insisting on a more effective forest management strategy
Hard-selling a fallacy
The North will stagnate, South will grow, and the multinationals, aided by World Bank ideologues, will exploit the poorer countries for their own …
All for the people
International organisations concentrating on the moral and material uplift of the underpriviledged
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