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World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Rankin...

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Post Covid Funds for India

Since the COVID-19 crisis emerged, MDBs have stepped in with massive packages for economic, social and health support. ...

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World Without World Bank Possible: Activists

Action Week on World Bank Brings Together Social & Political Activists, Probing their Past and Demanding Accountab...

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Pandemic As An Opportunity- Covid 19 Outbreak & Response of Multilateral Development Banks

Multilateral Development Organizations like the World Bank Group over the past decades have defined mainly how the lang...

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Indian Civil Society Groups Announce “World Without World Bank” Action Week

Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings Date: 12 October, 2020 New Del...

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Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

On August 27th, the World Bank came out with a statement suspending the Doing Business Report. The statement said that ...

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The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

The world was witnessing a massive buildup of debt, even before the pandemic began. World Bank described it as the larg...

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A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly a...

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Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

The annual World Development Report (WDR) is a flagship publication of the World Bank. The 2021 WDR report is in the pr...

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Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

Over the years increasingly institutions like World Bank and other MDBs have started using post-disaster situations and...

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October 13, 2021

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World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that revealed serious ethical improprieties, conflicts of interest inherent in the Bank’s...

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November 2, 2020

Anuradha Munshi

Post Covid Funds for India

Since the COVID-19 crisis emerged, MDBs have stepped in with massive packages for economic, social and health support. Details of funds received by India from Multilateral Development Banks for COVID-19 recovery support as of 30th October 2020 is below. Post-Covid-Funds-for-IndiaDownload ...

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October 16, 2020

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World Without World Bank Possible: Activists

Action Week on World Bank Brings Together Social & Political Activists, Probing their Past and Demanding Accountability Press Release | October 16, 2020 New Delhi: A key message reverberating in the week long protest action was that a World Without World Bank is possible. Participated b...

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September 10, 2021

Anuradha Munshi Maju Varghese

Pandemic As An Opportunity- Covid 19 Outbreak & Response of Multilateral Development Banks

Multilateral Development Organizations like the World Bank Group over the past decades have defined mainly how the language and direction of development have shaped globally. In India, the experience has been no different. From the very unidimensional understanding of development promoting free-mar...

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October 13, 2020

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Indian Civil Society Groups Announce “World Without World Bank” Action Week

Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings Date: 12 October, 2020 New Delhi: People’s Movements, Civil Society Groups, and concerned citizens are coming together to protest the World Bank’s policies, interventions and impacts which negatively impacted t...

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September 4, 2020

Maju Varghese

Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

On August 27th, the World Bank came out with a statement suspending the Doing Business Report. The statement said that a number of irregularities have been reported regarding changes to the data in the Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 reports, published in October 2017 and 2019. The chan...

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August 26, 2020

Maju Varghese

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

The world was witnessing a massive buildup of debt, even before the pandemic began. World Bank described it as the largest, fastest and most broad based amounting to 230 percentage of the Global GDP. Debt in the emerging and developing countries were at a record level of US$ 55 trillion in 20...

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July 30, 2020

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A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly adopted Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) started in 2017 but, the changes that they have recommended so far are inadequate and far from strengthening the IP or the communiti...

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July 4, 2020

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Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

The annual World Development Report (WDR) is a flagship publication of the World Bank. The 2021 WDR report is in the process of being drafted and is titled “Data for Better Lives”. The Bank has shared the concept note for the Report for comments. As per the concept note, the World Development Repor...

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July 2, 2020

Anuradha Munshi

Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

Over the years increasingly institutions like World Bank and other MDBs have started using post-disaster situations and climate change as an opportunity to bring in policy reforms. Post disaster rehabilitation and recovery programmes provide institutions an easy entry with little resistance to the ...

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World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

Post Covid Funds for India

World Without World Bank Possible: Activists

Pandemic As An Opportunity- Covid 19 Outbreak & Response of Multilateral Development Banks

Indian Civil Society Groups Announce “World Without World Bank” Action Week

Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

Post Covid Funds for India

World Without World Bank Possible: Activists

Pandemic As An Opportunity- Covid 19 Outbreak & Response of Multilateral Development Banks

Indian Civil Society Groups Announce “World Without World Bank” Action Week

Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India