Who benefit from these policies?

Is drilling and mining the only way of development?

Friends of the Earth underlines that aid is not the most important thing to help these countries.

There needs to be another model of development, different from the world bank and the international monetary fund, and that being in favour of life means to be against the model of the financial institutions.

Mark Curtis, from Word Development Movement, explains what the UK government has to do with this all

Human rights abuses surround oil drilling.

On this piece we get out of the universities and talks about how world bank projects affects his country, Ghana.

The world bank has apparently a very good communications department that publishes a wide range of journals that end up in universities and libraries

Lucy from Bretton woods project explains the motivation of these institutios, and this is followed by a discussion on what reconstruction means.

The structural adjustment policies are the policies that countries need to implement in order to obtain a loan from the international monetary fund. They usually consist in cuts on public spending, like public health and education, and more lately, the privatisation of their public industry, like the water service.

How is the current internal structure of these institutions?
Lucy and Zoe, also from Bretton Woods Project, explain.