World Bank creating poverty (BBC Newsnight)


source: news.bbc.co.uk BBC NEWS | Greg Palast | World Bank ‘fails poor’ says Stiglitz – FIRST BROADCAST 27 APRIL 2001 IMF and World Bank meet in Washington – Greg Palast reports for BBC Television’s Newsnight. Three weeks ago James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, was supposed to appear on CNN, and he told CNN that if I showed up and they put me on the air he would not appear; he would remove all tapes of his interviews if Greg Palast were allowed on the air. And CNN did the courageous thing and yanked me out of the studio. Now we’re going to find out why. featuring: Joseph Stiglitz(fmr chief economist World Bank)

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