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IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

While IFC’s withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste...

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Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited – CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power...

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Victory for public health and the environment! The International Finance Corporation (IFC) withdraws from the proposed investment of USD 40 million for four waste incineration plants in Gujarat, India.

SOLIDARITY PRESS RELEASE February 21, 2025 – In a major victory for communities, environmental groups, and civil society...

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Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The c...

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An open letter to the World Bank: Address grave concerns over the Amaravati sustainable infrastructure and institutional development project

December 17, 2024 To, Executive Director The World Bank Washington, D.C. Dear Ms. / Mr. We, civil society organizations ...

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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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Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financial system on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary

The Bretton Woods institutions – the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)- have completed 80 years of existe...

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World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms

The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and st...

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April 16, 2025

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IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

While IFC’s withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste solutions instead. On 17 February, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, confirmed it will not provide a planned $40 million loan to su...

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March 19, 2025

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Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited – CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power plant developed on over 1250 hectares of land near the village Tunda-Wand, in Kutch district (India’s largest district with an area of 45,652 km2) of Gujarat state. A consortium o...

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February 21, 2025

Alliance for Incinerator Free Gujarat (AIFG)

Victory for public health and the environment! The International Finance Corporation (IFC) withdraws from the proposed investment of USD 40 million for four waste incineration plants in Gujarat, India.

SOLIDARITY PRESS RELEASE February 21, 2025 – In a major victory for communities, environmental groups, and civil society organisations (CSOs) who have been fighting against the proposed toxic and polluting Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration projects in Gujarat, India, the International Finance Corpo...

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January 25, 2025

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Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The costs We are astonished by the fact that $5 mn (2023 prices) was spent on the project since the complaint was filed with CRP until it was closed prematurely in 2018. The expenses l...

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December 23, 2024

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An open letter to the World Bank: Address grave concerns over the Amaravati sustainable infrastructure and institutional development project

December 17, 2024 To, Executive Director The World Bank Washington, D.C. Dear Ms. / Mr. We, civil society organizations from 17 countries, write to express our grave concerns regarding the Amaravati Sustainable Infrastructure and Institutional Development Project (Project ID: P507508), which is sche...

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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 2, 2024

CFA Admin

Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financial system on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary

The Bretton Woods institutions – the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)- have completed 80 years of existence and operations. As people of the global south, who continue to bear the brunt of the impacts of colonial expansion, resource extraction, wealth concentration, climate change a...

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October 15, 2024

Joe Athialy

World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms

The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and strengthen the demand for radical restructuring. The past eight decades did not witness any major reforms it undertook towards making it a more democratic institution. At best, it co...

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IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Victory for public health and the environment! The International Finance Corporation (IFC) withdraws from the proposed investment of USD 40 million for four waste incineration plants in Gujarat, India.

Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

An open letter to the World Bank: Address grave concerns over the Amaravati sustainable infrastructure and institutional development project

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?

Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financial system on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary

World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms

IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign

Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Victory for public health and the environment! The International Finance Corporation (IFC) withdraws from the proposed investment of USD 40 million for four waste incineration plants in Gujarat, India.

Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

An open letter to the World Bank: Address grave concerns over the Amaravati sustainable infrastructure and institutional development project

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?

Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financial system on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary

World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms

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