World Bank

March 10, 2023
Peter Schmidt

Sarah T. Hines’s 140-year history of water conflict in Cochabamba, Bolivia paints a picture of environmental world-building that is plodding, messy, and sorely needed.

April 12, 2017
Michael L. Dougherty

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to categorically prohibit metal mining, after over a decade of struggle against it.

January 18, 2017
Helen Hazelwood Isaac

Manuel Pérez Rocha gives an update on the recent World Bank investor dispute settlement in favor of El Salvador, which dismissed Canadian gold mining company Pacific Rim's $250 million USD case against the El Salvadoran government.

October 17, 2016
Helen Hazelwood Isaac

A NACLA Radio interview with Manuel Pérez-Rocha on his article, "Free Trade's Chilling Effects," from the latest NACLA Report, Free Trade 2.0. and one way that free trade agreements enrich foreign companies at the expense of poor countries. 

October 19, 2015
Michael S. Wilson

A diverse group of protestors raise issues about extractivism and the Trans Pacific Partnership during a conference that paralleled IMF/World Bank meetings

July 28, 2015
Mark Schuller

A century after the U.S. military invasion of Haiti in 1915, a U.N. "stabilization mission" continues to compromise the nation's political and economic sovereignty.

September 25, 2007
Hector Melo & Israel Yost
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