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Legal Experts Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging World Bank Immunity

International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clients’ case, Jam v. Inte...

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The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope

For Immediate Release The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope to Ensure Accountability of the World Bank Group January 23,...

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The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

What is diluted, amended, and narrowed down for making it easy for businesses is eroding of the rights of people The ‘Ea...

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World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

The World Bank has spent the past four years overhauling the rules it applies to prevent or mitigate social and environm...

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World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that...

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Does World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework provide the real analysis of the challenges India faces?

The World Bank Group is in the process of formulating its first Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for India for which ...

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June 11, 2018

Michelle Harrison

Legal Experts Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging World Bank Immunity

International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clients’ case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation challenging the immunity of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group. The Supreme Court has never before...

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July 3, 2018

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The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope

For Immediate Release The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope to Ensure Accountability of the World Bank Group January 23, 2018, Washington, D.C. and Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra in Gujarat petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of U.S. Cou...

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August 12, 2019

Governance Now

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

What is diluted, amended, and narrowed down for making it easy for businesses is eroding of the rights of people The ‘Ease of Doing Business’ report of the World Bank could not have come at a better time for the NDA government. The first anniversary of demonetisation, where everything from planning ...

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November 19, 2017

Amelia Neumayer

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

The World Bank has spent the past four years overhauling the rules it applies to prevent or mitigate social and environmental harm from the development projects it finances. But human rights are all but absent in its new rules. These rules, the Environmental and Social Framework, do not acknowledge ...

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August 12, 2019

Tani Alex

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that all is not well with it and it could get its wings clipped. The discussion on the review of the Panel happened at the Bank’s Spring Annual meetings in Washington during the second...

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November 21, 2017

Anuradha Munshi

Does World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework provide the real analysis of the challenges India faces?

The World Bank Group is in the process of formulating its first Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for India for which consultations are in process to come out with Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), which will provide analysis of the principal challenges facing India today. The SCD will provide ...

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Legal Experts Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging World Bank Immunity

The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

Does World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework provide the real analysis of the challenges India faces?

Legal Experts Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging World Bank Immunity

The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

Does World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework provide the real analysis of the challenges India faces?