Are ‘African Lions’ Really Roaring?
Patrick Bond makes a stinging critique of the recent report of the African Development Bank that claims that ‘one in three Africans is middle class’ and as a result, Africa is ready for ‘take off’.
World Bank Doesn’t Belong at the Green Climate Fund’s Drawing Table
More than 90 environment, development, human rights, and anti-debt organizations from around the world want the Bank to have no say in setting up this key new tool for helping poor nations address climate change.
Global Civil Society Wary of World Bank Role in New Funds
More than 90 organizations and global networks urge leaders to strictly limit the role and influence of the World Bank in designing a new Green Climate Fund.
Ensuring Equity in the Green Climate Fund
The creation of a global Green Climate Fund represents an important victory for developing countries and their civil society allies at the UN climate talks held in Cancun in 2010. However, the daunting task of designing almost all major elements of the new fund remains on the agenda for the coming year. Please join us for a dynamic panel discussion with climate finance experts from developing country governments and global civil society.
Climate Justice Policy Factsheets
Climate justice policy factsheets directly from the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico
China: Already on Top?
Like Sarah Palin, China is suddenly everywhere.
Experts Available: UN Advisory Group on Climate Finance Report
Recommendations downplay role of public finance and rely too much on private finance.
IMF/World Bank Teach In
In this critical time when the economic crisis has pushed over 50 million more people into extreme poverty, this year’s call to action invites activists to come together in support of confronting and solving:
* Climate Justice
* Food Sovereignty
* Poverty Eradication
Dodging World Bank Schizophrenia: The Looting of Africa Continues?
The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China, are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials.
Rwanda arrests U.S. Lawyer defending Opposition Candidate
Justice and rule of law shouldn’t take vacations, especially when champions of the law like Peter Erlinder need our help.
GAP Files Complaint Against World Bank Agency
A watchdog group alleges unethical behavior by the World Bank’s “institutional integrity” department.
Why a Real Recovery Must be a Global Recovery
Civil society proposals to fix the global financial system would benefit ordinary people in impoverished countries and in the United States.
IMF Reforms: Mere Tinkering or Change We Can Live With?
The IMF has introduced reforms with some positive features. But it has not questioned, much less shifted away from, the “market-fundamentalist” orientation it has prescribed and enforced for so long.
Robert McNamara’s Second Vietnam
At the World Bank, Robert McNamara wreaked as much havoc in countries as he did when head of the Pentagon.
Racial Discrimination at the World Bank
The breach between the Bank’s rhetoric on diversity and its practices means that it barely employs any black American in its professional grades.