The World Bank’s private sector financing arm doesn’t know the environmental and social impacts of nearly half its portfolio 8 February 2013 Campaigners are calling for a fundamental overhaul of World Bank lending to financial markets actors, following the publication of an Ombudsman audit.
Poorly governed countries targeted by land investors, warns Oxfam 7 February 2013 Investors are targeting the world’s weakest-governed countries to buy land, according to new analysis published by Oxfam to mark today’s international day of action on land grabs.