Evidence
Here at INVOKE, we’re shadowing the World Bank. It’s our hero! But in this game we need evidence proving how socially innovative the World Bank is.
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“Economic globalisation is not a mechanistic result of the laws of technology or of the economy, it is the outcome of a policy which is implemented by an ensemble of agents and institutions”
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/fotopoulos/english/brbooks/multi_crisis_id/ch4.htm
A long essay on how globalisation is both a phenomenon, and an organised push by transnational bodies such as the World Bank and the IMF.
Here’s a video featuring Mariano Abarca Roblero .
In Mexico he campaigned against the environmentally destructive open-pit Barium mine Blackfire, a World Bank project. He was shot dead in November last year.
Can you please provide more information please on the relationship of the WB with Blackfire? Thanks!
Might find something here:
http://www.narconews.com/docs/WBMexicoMining-1.pdf
General piece about World Bank mining loans:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/209/43374.html
Joint NGO report entitled: “The continued failure of the World Bank and IMF to fully assess the impact of their advice on poor people”
http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/EURODAD_blindspotfailureworldbankimf.pdf
World Bank-imposed water privatization in Bolivia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization#Bolivia
http://elquinceavopaso.blogspot.com/2010/03/chomsky-on-haiti-aid-should-go-to.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
“Under Reagan, USAID and the World Bank set up very explicit programs, explicitly designed to destroy Haitian agriculture. They didn’t cover it up. They gave an argument that Haiti shouldn’t have an agricultural system, it should have assembly plants; women working to stitch baseballs in miserable conditions.”
http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/webjournal/n0/Caffentzis.pdf (PDF File)
The World Bank and The Double Crisis of the African Universities
by George Caffentzis
“Much academic activity is now under the control of World Bank veterans, NGOers or staff from foreign universities, mostly from North America and Europe, who have been the main beneficiaries of the change. African universities and their staff are also implicated in much consultancy work for foreign companies as well. Consequently, there is a desire within the Bank to keep the compliant universities running in order to preserve these adjusted zones of knowledge production.”
“The World Bank’s lamentable record in South African energy included hundreds of
millions of dollars to fund apartheid-era Eskom’s distribution of power to whites (blacks
did not receive electricity until 15 years after the last Bank loan) – for which the Jubilee
SA movement says the Bank must pay reparations – and during the post-apartheid era,
the Bank has been notorious for advocating privatization, budget cuts, services
disconnections in the event of inability to pay, and substandard services (including no
electricity service to the very poor).”
http://www.groundwork.org.za/Publications/EskomFinalDocs/WBEskomcritique%20pdf.pdf
6 reasons why the World Bank should be debarred from education:
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=542516
Having sowed the seeds of famine in Ethiopia through structural adjustment, the IMF and World Bank are enabling US multinationals to exploit the disaster by providing GM seed as aid. ”
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/156917-The-Real-Cause-Of-Famine-In-Ethiopia-Statistical-Data-Included
My hat is off for the creators of this site,
Delta Team is in the house.
pan.american.resilience@gmail.com
Good overview of the World Bank’s activities:
http://alainet.org/active/19342&lang=es
The Bank is proud of its support for corporations and private investors, as expressed on the MIGA website:
“Our presence in a potential investment can literally transform a “no-go” into a “go.” We act as a potent deterrent against government actions that may adversely affect investments. And even if disputes do arise, our leverage with host governments frequently enables us to resolve differences to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.”
Documentary about the World Bank. John Pilger calls it “socialism for the rich”: