U.S. Urged to Reject New World Bank Focus on Large Infrastructure

Inter Press Service: A group of environmentalists, gender activists and international finance watchdogs are calling on the U.S. government to support calls for the World Bank to step back from a new programmatic focus on large-scale infrastructure, which critics say does little to help alleviate poverty. The call comes just ahead of a major funding meeting, to be held Mar. 20-21 in Paris, of donors to the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the world's poorest countries. In a background...

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