Update: When Companies Sue Governments (Audio)
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.
When Companies Sue Governments (Audio)
A NACLA Radio interview with Manuel Pérez-Rocha on his article, "Free Trade's Chilling Effects," from the latest NACLA
World Bank Education Policy: Market Liberalism Meets Ideological Conservatism
The theme of the Fifth Ibero-American Summit, held in the Argentine resort of Bariloche last October, was "Education and Development."
STATES WITHIN STATES
"LAST WEEK ALL OF A SUDDEN THE NEEDLE went right through me fingernail. But you can't use a thimble-it would
Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the South
The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) extol the importance of involving civil society in the projects that
Jamaica: Leveraged Sellout
AT HIS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN NOVEM- ber, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica William Holden made his intentions clear. His stated mission
World Bank Takes Aim at Brazil’s Landless Movement
This is Brazil, but it isn't Carnaval. There are no sequins or bright feathers here in Rio Novo. Instead, a
BANANA BUST
AT THE AGE OF 56, MRS.JOHN STILL STRUGGLES in Dominica's rugged mountains to raise bananas for export to England. Each
IMF and World Bank to Labor Unions: Drop Dead
From October 23 to 25 of last year, the High Command of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World
Taking Note
Hollywoodism WHEN THE SOVIET UNION REFRAINED from quashing the eruption of Eastern Europe, and even encouraged its former client states
The World Bank’s Indigenous Policy
In early 1994, the Ecuadorian government announced the seventh round of oil leases to open up ten new areas of
Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the North
In early October last year, over a thousand marchers left Dupont Circle and proceeded up Connecticut Avenue to the Washington
