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July 25, 2008

World Bank

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World Bank Still Not Lending With Environment (And Disasters) In Mind: Report

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Andy Revkin, Rainforest, World Bank, Environment, The Burning Season, Amazon, Rain Forest, Green News

Back in 1989, when I spent four months scouring the road-laced reaches of the western Amazon researching my first book, The Burning Season, I learned ...

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"Fantasy Dessert" Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Global Food Crisis, Food Crisis, World Bank, G8, Hunger, World Hunger, G8 Fantasy Dessert, Food Prices, Green News

We're facing the biggest human rights crisis of my lifetime: The U.K.'s ActionAid estimates that current price spikes may have doubled the number of hungry and food-insecure people to 1.7 billion.

Good Grief, Gordon Brown!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Gordon Brown, Gas Prices, Biofuels, How to Solve World Hunger, Alternative Energy, World Hunger, Economy, Agriculture, World Bank, Environment, Global Poverty, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Google, Food, Food Prices, Politics News

By scolding Britons to "cut [their] food waste," Prime Minister Gordon Brown reinforces the dangerous myth that a shortage of food is the reason food prices have jumped.

The Cost of Latin America's New Dams

Laura Carlsen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Megaprojects, Infrastructure, Dams, Latin America, La Parota, World Bank, Mexico, Indigenous, Cecop, Temacapulin, Politics News

In Latin America, economic planners have intensified strategies to assure that the energy system that caused the energy crisis in the first place can continue to function.

Killing the Dead Sea Twice Is Good for Politicians, Not the Environment

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Jordan, Politics, Red Sea, Shimon Peres, Ecology, Middle East, World Bank, Environment, Israel, Palestine, Treehugger, Dead Sea, Green News

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.

Economic Colonization: The Rich Profiting from the Poor is Not the Way to Handle Microfinance

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Grameen, Microcredit, World Bank, Borrowers, Foundation, Business, Alex Counts, Donate Grameen America, Wealth, Microfinance, Interest Rates, Mohammed Yunus, Business News

What is the point of microfinancing the poor build up small businesses if it is only to eventually provide wealthy, Western-owned businesses and individuals with even a larger share of the world's wealth?

World Bank Prices First Carbon Offset Bond

Reuters | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: United Nations Climate Change, Carbon Offset Credits, World Bank Carbon Bond, Climate Change, United Nations, World Bank, Certified Emissions Reduction Credits, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

The World Bank on Monday priced a $25 million bond linked to United Nations-approved carbon emission offset credits, the market's first such bond, lea...

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Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Biofuels, Trade, Food Crisis, Malawi, World Bank, Agriculture, Africa, Imf, Wto, Structural Adjustment, Politics News

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

America: A Moral Leader?

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drought, World Food Crisis, Ethiopia, World Hunger, Egypt, World Bank, Food Crisis, Food Aid, Haiti, Politics News

The world food crisis - the "silent tsunami" - now threatens some 100 million people across the world. The danger is real and present.

The View from Haiti

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Global Food Crisis, World Bank, Food Prices, Food, World Hunger, Riot, Hunger, Haiti, Politics News

It's the middle of the day; the sun is up, the heat rising in Port au Prince, the capitol of Haiti. Thousands are looking for work, any work; work that might pay them enough to eat for hunger is on the march here.

Bird Flu, Rice and Gas Guzzling

Laurie Garrett | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Crude Oil Prices, World Bank, Bird Flu, Oil Prices, Oil, Food, Climate Change, Food Prices, Bangladesh, Global Warming, Politics News

Genuine policy solutions to what guarantees to be an escalating food/disease/energy/climate crisis require a willingness on the part of all nations to make painful decisions about global governance.

The IMF's Historic Transition: Is Less Better?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Debt Cancellation, International Monetary Fund, Asian Financial Crisis, World Bank, Bretton Woods, Treasury Department, Argentina, Imf, US and World Bank, Creditors Cartel, Business News

Despite the bravado, today's IMF is not what it once was. These days, the deficit police force is running a whopping small-country-size $400-million annual deficit of its own.

Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank's Damage

Robert Weissman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: School Fee, User Fee, Imf, Education, World Bank, Business News

For 30 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have remade much of the developing world according to a market fundamentalist ideol...

Robert Zoellick's Slightly Tardy Clarion Calls

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lugar, Robert Zoellick, Food Price Rise, World Bank, Rice, Transparency, Corn, Condi Rice, Wheat, Bush Administration, Ethanol, Leahy, Accountability, Senators Bayh, Anti-Corruption, Mismanagement, Cgiar, Politics News

The Bush administration's former deputy to Condi Rice, Robert Zoellick, who currently runs the World Bank, has been making some frantic calls. It is just that they are a trifle late.

Food Riots Skyrocket, World Leaders Have No Solutions

Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Higher Prices, Finance Ministers, Food Shortages, Food Riots, Robert Zoellick, Commodity Prices, World Bank, Jacques Edouard Alexis, Bio-Fuels, Haiti, Corn-Based Ethanol, Global Food Prices, Ethanol, Global Financial Crisis, Surging Prices, Global Riots, Business News

Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...

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Inflation Is Getting Worse

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Federal Reserve, Inflation, World Bank, Business News

So long as India and China are still growing at strong clips, expect more upside price pressure. Those two countries add 2 billion people to the demand side of the equation.

A Potential Vice-Presidential Candidate Struggles with Legislative Dealmaking

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Representative Nita Lowey, Senate Finance Committee, World Bank, Senator Menendez, Senator Patrick Leahy, Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Immunity, Authorization Committees, Budget of President Bush, Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Barack Obama, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, Gao, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Specter, Appropriations Subcommittees, House Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Indiana, Presidential Primary, Politics News

Senator Evan Bayh is on the short-list of vice-presidential candidates for both Obama and Clinton -- so his effectiveness as the potential president of the Senate is a matter of some importance.

Free the World Bankers!

Dennis Whittle | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Globalgiving, World Bank, Business News

People who come to the World Bank with energy and new ideas gradually learn that they must spend their time dealing with bureaucratic processes and compliance issues.

Poor Roads and the Broken Path to Development

Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living

Read More: African Roads, World Bank, African Infrastructure, Living News

It feels like an earthquake, but it's just a typical rural African road. The major highway out of the capital Lilongwe has ended, and the rest of the journey is on dirt roads that connect nearby cities.

Why China Needs To End Its Economic Mercantilism

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business

Read More: China Export Strategy, Adam Smith, World Trade Organization, Yuan, James Fallows, Export Led Growth, Chinese Yuan, World Intellectual Property Organization, Anti-Trust Laws, World Bank, China Gdp, China Exports, Predatory Pricing, China Economy, China Growth Rate, Purchasing Power Parity, Business News

The new picture of a poorer China did not surprise me. Everywhere I looked, what's done in the United States by one or two workers, was done in China by a multitude of workers.

Wolfowitz Picked for Arms Control Panel

AP | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush Administration, Wolfowitz Returns to Government, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, World Bank, Wolfowitz State Department, Condoleezza Wolfowitz, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz will head a high-level advisory panel on arms control and disarmament, the State Department ...

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Bomb Threat Shuts Down World Bank

Reuters | Posted 01.17.2008 | Business

Read More: World Bank Bomb Threat, World Bank Washington, World Bank, Business News

The World Bank said on Thursday its security staff was investigating a bomb threat made by telephone and told employees of its Washington headquarters...

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Head Of World Bank Fraud Unit Resigns Amid Turmoil

New York Times | STEVEN R. WEISMAN | Posted 01.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, World Bank Antifraud, Robert Zoellick, World Bank Fraud, World Bank, Business News

Six months after taking over as president of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick faced new turmoil on Wednesday over a campaign against corruption in b...

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Edwards, Not Obama, is Mr. Africa

Robert Naiman | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, International Monetary Fund, Dennis Kucinich, Africa, World Bank, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Imf, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Obama Africa, Politics News

It seems that unlike his Democratic rivals, Sen. Obama would not commit to $50 billion in new funding in coming years to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria.

Which Side Are You On?

Larry Abrams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Michael Bloomberg, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Clinton Years, Michael Dukakis, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Structural Adjustment, McCain Iraq, Fdr New Deal, National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert Rubin, Hillary Electability, Rudy Giuliani, Ross Perot, John Edwards, Henry Paulson, Reagan Sandinistas, Hillary Clinton, Commodification, Free Market, Values Voters, Politics News

Getting rid of Bush will be good and great thing, but it doesn't make the case for Hillary Clinton. The problem with Hillary is that she doesn't really fit the political moment.

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