The World Bank Can’t Sacrifice the Poor to Stay in the Game | David Pred
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Every year around the world some 15 million people are uprooted from their land and homes to make way for “#development.” This slow tsunami of human misery does not attract much media attention, but forced displacement for development projects — such as mines, oil and gas pipelines, hydropower dams, and urban renewal schemes — has become a full-blown crisis in the developing world. (...)
That is why watchdogs were so alarmed when the World Bank released a draft of its new social and environmental safeguards last week. These
