Inclusive Development International

(Phnom Penh, August 15, 2016) – Inclusive Development International (IDI) released Making Inroads: Chinese Infrastructure Investment in ASEAN and Beyond today, a new report that sheds light on the rapidly changing landscape of infrastructure finance driven by China in the region. Little more than a decade ago, China was a relatively minor actor in global investment and finance....

(Washington DC, July 28, 2016) – After a four-year review of its environmental and social safeguards, the World Bank has released an updated set of safeguards in the newly drafted document “Environmental and Social Framework.” But nongovernmental organizations  say the safeguards have been weakened, not strengthened. The Bank says the safeguards review and update is part of...

(Huffington Post, June 22, 2016) – The World Bank is having an existential crisis. For decades, the bank was the premier development finance institution, doling out loans to developing countries without rival. The World Bank was also a pioneer – though not always willingly – in creating standards to protect people who could be harmed...

(Asheville, June 3, 2016) –  In a report released today, Inclusive Development International (IDI) and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) called upon the World Bank to reassess a new approach to handling complaints that its accountability mechanism began piloting in 2014. In early 2014, the World Bank Inspection Panel added a new...

(Washington DC, May 31, 2016) – Members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee have released a letter sent to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew calling on the Treasury to be prevent the proposed dilution of the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguard policies. The World Bank is in the final stages of drafting a new...

Stop the Criminalization of Environmental and Human Rights Defenders! Free Ethiopian Political Prisoners! (March 15, 2016) — One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail. After several court hearings, the prosecution has yet to present any evidence to support the spurious...