World Bank

As delegates gather at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, two videos expose what happens when community land is taken over by private interests.

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Iris Gonzales has strong words for incoming bank boss Jim Yong Kim.

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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa team up to resist Western financial domination, reports Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.

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Wonders will never cease, says Mark Engler.

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New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy travelled there to find out how people are adapting to a warming world.

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Latin American countries are giving the World Bank and the IMF the boot.

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Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by per-capita income is just useless. It is oil-rich and yet half the population lives below the poverty line. World Bank/IMF strictures are doing their part to help keep it that way.

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They shouted it in Hong Kong. But why is the organization so hated?

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Long-standing World Bank consultant Peter Griffiths blows the whistle on the damage done, from Russia to Sierra Leone.

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