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World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note

As the Bretton Woods Institutions complete 80 years, here are eight charges against them (not in order of the severity o...

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Finance Matters | 29 November 2024

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World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?

Truman – Rostow Club and the Birth of Development Discourse In 1949, U.S. President Harry Truman, in his “Point F...

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Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development

In 1994, the New York Times described the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “overlords of Africa” and...

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Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?

On their 80th birthday, the colonial legacies of the World Bank (collectively for the IBRD – International Bank for Rec...

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In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note

While the Adani indictment by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission “may or may not...

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Finance Matters | 22 November 2024

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Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

Taking health into consideration, is garbage incineration the way forward to tackle waste? A recent investigative report...

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26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

समाज के गठन में अगर उत्पादन की पद्वति एक बुनियादी आधार है तो यह माना जा सकता है कि खेती ने मानव सभ्यता के विकास में मनुष...

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A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

“Democracy is by the people, for the people, and of the people.”-Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA (1861-65) We...

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December 3, 2024

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World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note

As the Bretton Woods Institutions complete 80 years, here are eight charges against them (not in order of the severity of the crimes!). 1. Perpetuator of Climate Crisis: Now championing as a climate saviour and “climate bank”, the Bank must be the one institution which might have contrib...

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September 15, 2026

Haripriya B Harshan

Finance Matters | 29 November 2024

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January 10, 2025

Rachit Tiwari

World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?

Truman – Rostow Club and the Birth of Development Discourse In 1949, U.S. President Harry Truman, in his “Point Four” speech, introduced an influential vision of “development” that charted the course of history toward a US centric world. Truman’s speech framed the Global South as...

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December 2, 2024

Sejal Singh

Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development

In 1994, the New York Times described the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “overlords of Africa” and ostensibly so the bankers have indeed become overlords of the global south since the globalisation of neoliberal economic order with the ‘end of history’ moment in the 1990s and...

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December 2, 2024

Mehul Singh

Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?

On their 80th birthday, the colonial legacies of the World Bank (collectively for the IBRD – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the IDA – International Development Association) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have sparked calls for reforms, radical reconstruction an...

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November 28, 2024

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In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note

While the Adani indictment by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission “may or may not turn out to be the Modi regime’s Bofors moment”, it vindicates what many political parties and people’s movements were raising for the past over a decade. The indictment tells us ...

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September 15, 2026

Haripriya B Harshan

Finance Matters | 22 November 2024

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November 26, 2024

Afroz Khan, Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran, Geo Damin, Vishvaja Sambath

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

Taking health into consideration, is garbage incineration the way forward to tackle waste? A recent investigative report by the New York Times on Delhi’s Waste-To-Energy (WTE) incinerators, analysed 150 air and soil samples gathered over a five-year period, from 2019 to 2023. The lead and arsenic-la...

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November 26, 2024

Raj Kumar Sinha

26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

समाज के गठन में अगर उत्पादन की पद्वति एक बुनियादी आधार है तो यह माना जा सकता है कि खेती ने मानव सभ्यता के विकास में मनुष्य को उसे स्थिरता दी और धीरे- धीरे आपसी सहमति के आधार पर खेती के इर्दगिर्द एक सामाजिक- सांस्कृतिक संरचना का निर्माण हुआ। इस तरह जीवन जीने के लिए स्थायी साधन के रूप में खेती और उससे...

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November 26, 2024

Thomas Franco

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

“Democracy is by the people, for the people, and of the people.”-Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA (1861-65) We claim to be the largest democracy. Are we? Two latest developments raise this question. The first is the support one individual, Gautam Adani, and his company could get to increas...

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World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note

Finance Matters | 29 November 2024

World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?

Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development

Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?

In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note

Finance Matters | 22 November 2024

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note

Finance Matters | 29 November 2024

World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?

Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development

Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?

In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note

Finance Matters | 22 November 2024

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

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World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note

Finance Matters | 29 November 2024

World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?

Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development

Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?

In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note

Finance Matters | 22 November 2024

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note

Finance Matters | 29 November 2024

World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?

Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development

Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?

In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note

Finance Matters | 22 November 2024

Waste-to-energy incineration, as proposed by the T.N. government, will be disastrous for Chennai’s health and climate

26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?