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A deeply researched and widely acclaimed account of the World Bank and its destructive impact on the environment and social equity, as well as a questioning of the history, underly...
This section has material on four chapters I authored in four different books, plus a preface and essay I authored for a book on Ashoka published in Bengali in Bangladesh in 2016.
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...
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...
This was the lead article in the "Special Issue: Environmental Law and Policy in Developing Countries" of the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Ecology Law...
This is the story of how the Export Credit Agencies of major exporting coutries operated under a cloak of secrecy with a mandate to promote domestic businesses abroad at almost an...
Corrupt businesses, politicians, and cronies are stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from the globe’s poorest people. The World Bank and other multilateral development lending...
This article examines the record of the first several years of James Wolfensohn's tenure as president of the World Bank, based mainly on internal Bank evaluation reports. This piec...
This testimony examines the institutional issues concerning massive corruption in World Bank lending over the past thirteen years through 2004, as documented in internal World Bank...
My testimony concerned the Asian Development Bank, subsequently the discussion with Senator Lugar also dealt with the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, especiall...
In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.
A description and analysis of the strategy of civil society organizations to promote environmental reforms in World Bank in the 1980s.
Robert Kuttner's recent book, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism,“ warns that “corporate and financial elites have substantially captured the machinery of the state,” as wel...
“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...
Rich describes carbon markets as the “financial cargo cult that had driven much of the early enthusiasm for REDD+.” REDD national plans often tended to focus on the technical compl...
The United Nations Green Climate Fund is the principal international mechanism to channel finance from richer nations to developing countries for climate change mitigation and adap...
An article by four UK researchers...concludes that despite long-standing strategies that purport to achieve biodiversity protection and poverty alleviation, actual empirical eviden...
The allure of an market that pays developing countries and forest communities to preserve standing forests as offsets for not reducing emissions in the richer industrialized nation...
The tragedy is that there already lies a clear path to achieve two thirds of the needed CO2 emission reductions, while supporting poverty-reducing clean energy investments in devel...
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...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation as well as other international organizations are not totally immune from lawsuits in the US. Af...
Greta Thunberg said the 26th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Climate Convention, like the past quarter century of COPs, amounted to “blah blah blah.” Queen Elizabeth II obser...
In 2023 average global temperatures reached the highest level ever measured. Saudi Aramco, Qatar Energy, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Total announced major production expansion plans....
