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Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-men’s club,...

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World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles

World Without World Bank 2022 New Delhi | 21st April 2022 This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took pla...

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World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India

Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank...

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and ...

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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

Submissions in the case on the disastrous Tata Mundra power plant project demonstrate that immunity decision in the US S...

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Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Infrastructure Finance Update, September 2021 As the Indian Railways are staring at getting privatised under the Nationa...

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The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

The Tata group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building...

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A Big Win- IFC World Bank to Freeze Investment in For-Profit Schools

Recently, a piece of good news has appeared that World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) upholding t...

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Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs

For immediate release Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs July 26, 2...

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विश्व बैंक के बाद, एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक ने अपना निवेश अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से वापस लिया

प्रेस रिलीज | २३ जुलाई २०१९ विश्व बैंक के बाद, एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक ने अपना निवेश अमरावती कैपिटल सिट...

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June 2, 2023

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Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-men’s club, except for Kristalina Georgieva, who had become World Bank’s acting president briefly for a few weeks in 2019. Banga’s nomination (not democratically elected) by the US administra...

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June 22, 2022

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World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles

World Without World Bank 2022 New Delhi | 21st April 2022 This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took place virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of April, 2022. On a parallel front, continuing from the last few years, the Financial Accountability Network India and Working Group on IFIs...

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April 28, 2022

Gaurav Dwivedi

World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India

Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank Campaign Week in 2021 at a panel titled “Privatisation, Commodification and Corporatization: Real Agenda of the IMF and the World Bank”. The author would like to thank Sonal Raghu...

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February 22, 2022

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court to go back to the case Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC , (Tata Mundra case) ...

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February 18, 2022

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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

Submissions in the case on the disastrous Tata Mundra power plant project demonstrate that immunity decision in the US Supreme Court has broad and dangerous consequences. February 17, 2022, New Delhi – This week, prominent economic, legal, diplomatic, and civil society experts – including Joseph S...

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October 19, 2021

Shivani Dwivedi

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Infrastructure Finance Update, September 2021 As the Indian Railways are staring at getting privatised under the National Monetisation Pipeline, the World Bank has outlined the role it can play as India looks to fund its ambitious National Rail Plan over the next 30 years, which envisages almost 8,0...

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June 1, 2021

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The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

The Tata group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building the nation’s first “ultra mega” coal-fired power plant. The plan was to build the plant along the Gulf of Kutch, an inlet of the Arabian Sea that provides a living for fishing cla...

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April 23, 2020

Ambarish Rai

A Big Win- IFC World Bank to Freeze Investment in For-Profit Schools

Recently, a piece of good news has appeared that World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) upholding the right to education in an official commitment and decided to freeze investments in private for-profit pre-primary, primary and secondary (k-12) schools. Currently, the whole worl...

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July 29, 2019

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Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs

For immediate release Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs July 26, 2019: Confirming the concerns raised by the communities and civil society organisations, Government of India withdrew its request from the World Bank for financing Amaravati Capital...

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July 29, 2019

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विश्व बैंक के बाद, एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक ने अपना निवेश अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से वापस लिया

प्रेस रिलीज | २३ जुलाई २०१९ विश्व बैंक के बाद, एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक ने अपना निवेश अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से वापस लिया चीन के नेतृत्व वाले एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक (AIIB) ने आंध्र प्रदेश के अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से हाथ खींच लिए है। विश्व बैंक द्वारा प...

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Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles

World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India

Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

A Big Win- IFC World Bank to Freeze Investment in For-Profit Schools

Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs

Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles

World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India

Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

A Big Win- IFC World Bank to Freeze Investment in For-Profit Schools

Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs