The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political
Does the World Bank have a duty to restrict funding for countries committing human rights abuses?
Civil society organisations say ‘mitigation measures’ proposed by the bank are ‘appallingly weak’
The bank has diverted attention from the US anti-rights groups who helped drive homophobic legislation across Africa
With 82% of Lebanon’s population living in poverty, the country is in desperate need of political and economic reform
The IMF claims to be empowering women, but its programmes will only lead to more women doing precarious work.
As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking more progressive positions
The World Bank’s relationship to occupied Palestine is an unusual one, and one that has not been particularly effective in terms of its stated goals. This is partly due to limitations of its mandate and of the ‘development for peace’ paradigm.
