Zoellick’s term officially ends on June 30th, 2012. BIC hopes the next candidate brings sweeping reform.
The Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers’ Rights calls out their Ombudsman for an assessment report that fails to take their social and environmental concerns into account.
India has been declared the largest country of operation of the IFC (the private investing arm of the World Bank), with a total USD 3.6 billion in financing, spanning 248 projects. Both IFC and World Bank apparently take pride in these projects being “environmentally sustainable”.
The Bank Information Center welcomes the World Bank’s initative to open up and create a larger space for civil society from the MENA region.
The outgoing World Bank Country Manager for Brazil, Mahktar Diop, challenges the conclusions of an evaluation by Bank Information Center of the $1.3 billion Sustainable Environmental Management Development Policy to promote environmental reforms in Brazil.
The World Bank announced yesterday that it will support Bolivia until 2015 with more than US$250 million, which will go to rural development projects and highway improvements. Read the news article here in Spanish: La Razón / Willy Chipana / La Paz / 22 de diciembre de 2011
New report by Amazonian indigenous peoples exposes the reality of REDD+ in Peru and proposes solutions.
Commonly, it’s thought that developing countries bear a large portion of the blame for climate change. This study shows that the biggest climate offenders are in fact the richest countries in the world, while low and middle income countries suffer from the effects.
The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) co-organised a roundtable discussion on the need for more parliamentary accountability and scrutiny of International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.