ASIA: World Bank Aims to Earn Stripes Through Tiger Summit
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Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jan 22 (IPS) – An international campaign to save the tiger, one of Asia’s iconic wild animals, is proving to be fertile ground for the World Bank to earn its stripes as an institution keen on joining the ranks of conservationists.
Senior officials from the international [...]
FINANCE: Not Reforms, But Reformed
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Analysis by Sanjay Suri
LONDON, Oct 7 (IPS) – The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have run into a predictable roadblock in setting out brave new directions: a roadblock called memory. What could have been an immensely sensible idea of turning the IMF into a [...]
FINANCE: World Bank, NGOs Exhort G20 Not to Forget the Poorest
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Jim Lobe and Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Sep 16 (IPS) – The World Bank and major non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are calling on leaders who will gather for next week’s Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Pittsburgh not to forget the needs of the world’s poorest countries, which have been severely affected by [...]
DEVELOPMENT: NGOs Question World Bank’s Clean Energy Roadmap
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Mary Tharin
WASHINGTON, Sep 15 (IPS) – The World Bank’s 2010 World Development Report (WDR), released Tuesday, calls on the developed world to lead global efforts to cut carbon emissions, but some civil society groups remain highly sceptical of the bank’s role in brokering climate finance.
The report sets [...]
AFRICA: ‘Have Your Own Policies, as Long as They’re Like Ours’
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Marina Penderis
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 9 (IPS) – The controversial conditionalities attached to World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans over the past 20 years may, from the World Bank’s point of view, no longer be necessary as African countries are of their own accord imposing similar policy restrictions [...]
ARGENTINA: Huge Loan to Flow into ‘Open Sewer’ River
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Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 24 (IPS) – Local residents and environmentalists are eyeing with cautious optimism a major loan from the World Bank to the Argentine government to clean up the Matanza-Riachuelo river that runs through Buenos Aires – the country’s most polluted waterway.
”There is a great hunger [...]
