 Stories About: business AND World Bank
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But What's $41 Billion?
World Bank overstates commitment to environment, says internal watchdog |
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22 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:26 PM on 22 Jul 2008 The World Bank overstates its commitment to financing sustainability-minded projects in developing countries and should greatly improve its efforts, according to an internal review. Official estimates hold that the bank put $59 billion into environment-focused projects between 1990 and 2007; while the bank's coding system makes it difficult to figure out specifics, th ... |
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Who's cashing in on the high price of food?
With food riots raging, let's open the books on the finances of Big Ag |
Anna Lappe |
18 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| When we talk about the crisis in food prices, we should scrape below the surface to explore who's actually benefiting from the crisis. Unless you've had your head stuck in the freezer at Dean & Deluca, you've heard about the food crisis across the planet. A recent Financial Times displayed this staggering map of the globe: Black dots marked each of the countries were food riots have been sparked in outrage against the rising prices of food. Thirty dots in all. ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, business, food, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Breaking the Bank
World Bank should get out of carbon-offset market, says report |
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11 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:48 PM on 11 Apr 2008 Carbon-offset dealings by the World Bank have been criticized (and not for the first time) in a report released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies. In the past two years, the report charges, the bank has loaned $1.5 billion to fossil-fuel companies to make minor greenhouse-gas reductions. It then sells carbon credits for those reductions, says coauthor Daphne Wysham, " ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy, fossil fuels, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Heads You Lose, Tails I Win
World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study |
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12 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Heads You Lose, Tails I Win World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study You've probably developed an immunity to scandal and outrage, but we'll keep plying you with it anyway: a two-year study by Greenpeace International has found that in the past three years, Congolese village chiefs have handed over vast expanses of the world's second-largest rainforest to Eu ... |
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| Topics: business, Congo, Greenpeace, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Camarooned
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18 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Camarooned By the end of this year, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil will flow through pipelines in Chad and Cameroon, bringing about $2.5 billion and $500 million to the two countries, respectively. But critics say those profits won't help the region's poorest and neediest, even though the project's major players -- an ExxonMobil-led oi ... |
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| Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, commercial and industry organizations, United States, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Breaking the Bank
The economic heresy of Herman Daly |
Lissa Harris |
10 Apr 2003 |
Main Dish |
| If economics is a religion, the World Bank is perhaps its grandest church. For the last half century, the venerable institution at 1818 H Street in Washington, D.C., has been dispatching its missionaries around the globe, spreading the theology of the free market to the heathens. And if economics is a religion, Herman Daly is its arch-heretic, a member of the high priesthood turned renegade. From 1988 to 1994, Da ... |
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