Cambodia

World Bank: Investigate Cambodia’s Micro-Loans

5 January 2021 - by Human Rights Watch

The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today. These longstanding problems have worsened (...)
Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Their Lives

9 February 2016 - by Michael Hudson, Jocelyn C. Zuckerman

In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction. KEY FINDINGS - Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million (...)