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Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the P...
A look back at the Clean Development Mechanism and at future reduction efforts.....The study [on behalf of the European Commission] identifies inherently contradictory incentives i...
Imagine a city with the highest murder rate on earth, where public areas are deserted, and hundreds of thousands of refugees live in shantytowns. Another city has a violence rate t...
This article appeared in late 2013, and the World Bank Group has made progress in adopting some of the article's recommendations, namely commitments to end financing of coal power...
“Dirty money” flows totalling over $1.1 trillion a year support human trafficking, global drug mafias, terrorist networks, and arms smuggling, as well as fueling international wild...
Over the last two decades the world’s institutions have largely failed to deal with the ecological crises of climate change, destruction of species, and pollution of fresh water an...
This is an excerpt from the Preface to the new 2017 Penguin edition of To Uphold the World, published with a new title, Ashoka in Our Time: The Question of Dharma for a Globalized...
The world’s richest nations are preparing to deliver as much as $12 billion in extra funds to the World Bank to fight global warming. At the same time, the bank is accelerating len...
Last February 13th the Indian government arrested in the south Indian city of Bengalaru (Bangalore) an apparently highly dangerous young woman. Security forces extradited her immed...
On March 21, 2022 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.” An example is the massive international public fin...
In June, 2022 UN Secretary General António Guterres stood before more than 6000 delegates from 150 nations to open the second United Nations Oceans Conference in Lisbon Portugal. “...
In 2022 Brazil's President Bolsonaro, self styled "Tropical Trump," promoted polices leading to 43 percent of world tropical forest loss that year. His successor, Luiz Lula de Silv...
A new paperback edition of To Uphold the World has been published by Penguin/Random House/Viking in India., with a new updated preface and a new title. It is available in the U..S...
"Foreclosing the Future," Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: I discuss the findings of my then recently published new book on the World Bank, "...
