25 January 2010
Nancy Alexander's new report finds several worrying trends in how the World Bank spends its money, namely that it is increasing its lending to middle income countries while loans and grants to low income countries stagnate, that DPOs with less stringent safeguards are outpacing project lending, and that the Gender Action Plan is not achieving its goals.
read the report
Fostering impunity or accountability? Sweeping changes at the World Bank-IDA, by Nancy Alexander, Heinrich Boell Foundation, January 25, 2010 (Acrobat pdf, 250 KB)