It was never in the public interest to incur a debt of $3.75-billion to build coal-burning Medupi
The bank’s announcement coincided with a UN climate summit currently underway in Poland
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe
A World Bank retail banking study of transactional and fixed deposits has found shortcomings in the way South African banks treat their customers
In first press conference since taking office in April, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also says 2020 election will be free and fair
Despite making only slow progress toward Sustainable Development Goals, the Bank shows no alarm or strategy to help get the SDGs on track for 2030.
The two biggest Net1 investors admit to CPS worries, but disagree on scale and severity.
Presumably out of the best of motives, World Bank’s investors have put money into a company whose behaviour looks like it is fleecing the poor.
Why did the World Bank ignore all the information circulating about Net1 and, instead, invest R1.6 billion, less than a year ago?
Recently I penned a letter to the World Bank in response to allegations that it was planning to lend the Zimbabwean government money.