World Bank is no friend of working people or the planet
February 2, 2023 Policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost by Pete Dolack Every so often, the World Bank puts out a paper that calls for better social protection or at least a somewhat better deal for working people. The public relations people there evidently believe we have very short memories. No, dear reader, the World Bank has not changed its function, nor have elephants begun to fly. Without any hint of irony, the World Bank’s latest attempt at selective amnesia is what it calls its Social Protection and Jobs strategy, in which it…