Frederic Mousseau
World Bank Ends Doing Business Report
Photo: Oakland Institute Oakland, CA — On September 16, 2021 the World Bank announced it has discontinued publication of the Doing Business Report (DBR), ...
DRC Report: Investors Bankrolling Land Theft, Human Rights Violations
Photo: Oakland Institute As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 hectares of their ancestral land, initially seized over a century ago for oil palm plantations, ...
Report: From “Extraction to Inclusion” in Papua New Guinea
[Papua New Guinea] Eddie Tanago: “our nation’s most important assets are not the minerals and petroleum that foreign corporations value so highly. Our most ...
World Bank Suspends Doing Business Report
[World Bank] Oakland Institute: “The Doing Business Report drives an insidious race to the bottom where policymakers around the world are competing on being ...
COVID-19 FALLOUT: DEAL WITH IMF THREATENS UKRAINE SMALL FARMERS
[Ukraine Small Farmers\IMF] Oakland Institute: “It is wrong and immoral for Western financial institutions to force a country in a dire economic situation amidst ...
Sweden Delays Payment after Oakland Institute Report Shows Corruption and Displacement of Ugandan Farmers by land-grab for Carbon Trading Project
Frédéric Mousseau One week after the release of the Oakland Institute’s report, Evicted for Carbon Credits: Norway, Sweden, and Finland Displace Ugandan Farmers for ...
260 Global Civil Activist Groups Reject World Bank’s “Illegitimate” 2015 Doing Business Rankings Report
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute Some 260 civil society organizations from around the world have joined forces to send a resounding ...
