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In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to stop funding coal. The advertisements, endorsed by W...

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April 27, 2019

Open Democracy

The World Bank’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction: A Case Study

The World Bank’s support for giant coal fired power plants in India and South Africa illustrate the organisation’s many institutional failings. This article is part of a series by openDemocracy and the Bretton Woods Project on the crisis of multilateralism. The views expressed are those ...

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March 11, 2026

CFA Admin

Tata Mundra: The Story Of A Valiant Struggle

On February 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision ruled that international organisations like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private-lending arm of the World Bank Group, do not enjoy absolute immunity as they indulge in the commercial activities. The case pertains to the 4...

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September 18, 2025

Anuradha Munshi

Update: A Great Victory: The Fight Continues!

In its historic decision on 27th Feb 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that international organizations like the World Bank Group “don’t enjoy absolute immunity”. Simply put, with this judgement, the World Bank and other international financial institutions can be sued anywhere for the damages...

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March 30, 2019

CFA Admin

Solidarity Statement from India on the NDB’s Fourth AGM

Solidarity Statement from India At People’s Dialogue, Cape Town on 31 March 2019 In response to BRICS-led New Development Bank’s 4th Annual General Meeting in South Africa The BRICS led NDB (New Development Bank) is being promoted as an institution that serves as developing economies’ healthy and es...

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May 21, 2019

Gaurav Dwivedi

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector would be responsible for propelling India’s overall development and enjoys intense focus from the Government for initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world...

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June 20, 2019

The Economic Times

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

This February, in a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that financial institutions like the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) are not immune from the law of land, and can be held accountable for their decisions across the world. This was the first time ever a case chall...

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March 9, 2019

Tani Alex

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually. Started by IBRD since 1978, this report is intended to provide deep and extensive analysis on one particular aspect of economic development, every year. The solutions and policy m...

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March 6, 2019

Joe Athialy

Wake Up World Bank

Absolute immunity leads to impunity, and that foments lack of transparency and the reluctance to be held accountable Over three decades back, it looked quite impossible to ask the World Bank to review a project approved by them, and to have a complaint mechanism inside the Bank. Yet, the struggle of...

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March 11, 2026

WGIFIs

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement on World Bank Group’s Immunity Mean for the people of Mundra, Gujarat, India and beyond? Dr Bharat Patel General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan and one of the co-petitioners, tells.

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Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

The World Bank’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction: A Case Study

Tata Mundra: The Story Of A Valiant Struggle

Update: A Great Victory: The Fight Continues!

Solidarity Statement from India on the NDB’s Fourth AGM

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

Wake Up World Bank

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?

Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

The World Bank’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction: A Case Study

Tata Mundra: The Story Of A Valiant Struggle

Update: A Great Victory: The Fight Continues!

Solidarity Statement from India on the NDB’s Fourth AGM

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

Wake Up World Bank

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?

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