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Topic: World Bank

A view of the World Bank building October 5, 2000 in Washington, DC. The World Bank bank lends money to developing countries around the world. (Per-Anders Pettersson/ Getty Images)

Malpass resigns amid climate controversy

Brett Marsh - Grist
A view of the World Bank building October 5, 2000 in Washington, DC. The World Bank bank lends money to developing countries around the world. (Per-Anders Pettersson/ Getty Images)

World Bank breaks sustainability vow

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Ivanka Trump and former President Donald Trump (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump tried to put Ivanka at World Bank

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
Maryar has three children from a husband who left her about a year ago to return to Darfur. She lives in the shack with another elder relative and her children. (Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)

The pandemic is causing extreme poverty

Matthew Rozsa
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The first day of the Strike WEF march on Davos on 18th of January 2020 near Davos, Switzerland. The first day of the march started in Lanquart with speeches and hot food and ended in Schiers. The protest is planned to finish in Davos with a public meeting in the town on the day the WEF begins. The march is a three day protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The activists want climate justice and think that The WEF is for the world's richest and political elite only. (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

The line from debt to the climate crisis

Bob Hennelly
Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump (AP/Evan Vucci)

Parscale: Trump is building a "dynasty"

Matthew Rozsa
Ivanka Trump (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Ivanka Trump passes on World Bank job

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Christof Stache)

Trump wanted to nominate Ivanka to UN

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
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Yanis Varoufakis (Getty/Jack Taylor)

Is the global economy just a con game?

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP)

World Bank phases out fossil fuels

Jason Kirk - The Conversation
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Kevin P. Gallagher - The Globalist
Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount)

Water is the new oil

Lindsay Abrams
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Thomas Freidman, Wall-E (Reuters/Woody Wu/Disney/Pixar/Salon)

Thomas Friedman has no soul

Richard (R.J.) Eskow
Rick Perry (AP/Susan Walsh)

Michael Winship - BillMoyers.com

James Griffiths - GlobalPost
Goldman Sachs chairman and chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Eric Zuesse - Alternet
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"Family values" hypocrites

David Sirota

Natasha Lennard
(AP/Chris Carlson)

Brad Bosserman - Next New Deal

Dene-Hern Chen
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