The Presidential Debate and Senator Coburn as a Potential Accountability & Transparency Czar
Senator Coburn is often misunderstood and is regularly hauled over the coals by the media
Senator Coburn is often misunderstood and is regularly hauled over the coals by the media
Dennis Whittle | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business
Ten years ago, Mari Kuraishi and I launched the first-ever Innovation Marketplace at the World Bank. The idea was that any team of staff, without reg...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business
Zoellick would have to comply with Congressional subpoenas to explain having headed the lobbying activities for Fannie Mae.
Brad Listi | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
A lot of people feel like they've lost their voice during the last eight years. This movie is a clear illustration of the fact that you do count... Things can be different. If Obama runs the country like he's run his campaign, we're in good shape.
Dennis Whittle | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green
Yesterday the Center for Global Development (CGD) invited me to a meeting with the World Bank to give some remarks on the Bank's forthcoming Climate C...
Lisa Gans | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
A corrupt society like that in Afghanistan is a lawless one, and in a lawless environment, nothing works and everyone lives in fear, clinging to tribal or ethnic affiliations to protect them.
DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
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 ...
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green
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.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
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.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green
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.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
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?
Reuters | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green
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...
Walden Bello | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.
Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz will head a high-level advisory panel on arms control and disarmament, the State Department ...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The World Bank said on Thursday its security staff was investigating a bomb threat made by telephone and told employees of its Washington headquarters...
New York Times | STEVEN R. WEISMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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...
Reuters | Iain Rogers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The United States lost its status as the largest donor to the World Bank's main fund for poor countries, the lender said on Friday, as Britain pledged...
New York Times | Mark Landler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Overcoming earlier misgivings about its direction and leadership, the World Bank said Friday it had raised $25.1 billion in aid for the world's poores...
AP | Bill Cormier | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Hugo Chavez and leaders of six other South American nations launched a regional development bank that they tout as the continent's answer to U.S.-infl...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics