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World Bank's Rankings Reward Dispossession, Land Privatization, Corruption, Environmental Devastation as Good For Business
This Is Hell
02 May 2018
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Tanzania recently made some seed saving a crime. Liberia lifted its requirements for trading companies to file environmental impact statements. Other countries have dispossessed their farmers and pastoralists, privatized their lands, and repressed their workers movements. In the World Bank's ranking system, this is what it takes to be labeled a good environment to do business. The Oakland Institute's Anuradha Mittal explains...

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