from the Freedom of Information Act in the US:
Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Files
Description: b. Country Files - Documents
reflect the review of loan proposals to ensure that U.S. foreign
policy interests are being adequately reflected in the policies and
operations of the banking institutions. Included are trade
deficit reports, decision memorandums, environmental issues which
affect certain projects, such as nuclear power projects and those
involving highly toxic materials, strategic planning, economic
situations, tax reform, financing, human rights issues including
cases, testimonies and reports, investment proposals, option
papers, economic trends report, trade policy measures, export
subsidies, debt rescheduling agreements, trade estimate reports,
tax reform, interest rates, economic highlights, strategic
planning, economic reform, issues papers, viewpoints, Eximbank
reviews providing discussion of country conditions and prospects
within Eximbank, loan commitments from Eximbank to Board of
Directors and related correspondence.
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do you know what that implies?
it means that the US is using banks and financial institution to
push their interests in order to forward a whole slew of things
that make sure that the "developing countries" remain poor so that
they can do whatever the hell they want..
with Bush pushing and succeeding in putting Paul Wolfowitz into the
chair of the World Bank, this allows the powers to do whatever they
want...
Its real job has been to serve the interests of the major
money-center banks and the multinational corporations who make the
big bucks in World Bank development projects. The Bank, which is
really a "fund," persuades a poor country like Ghana, for example,
to build a new industrial complex in order make stuff for export.
It will lend the money to Ghana -- which it gets from global
taxpayers including you and me -- and arrange for the complex to be
built by one of the favored corporations in the military-industrial
complex. The list always includes Bechtel Corporation, Halliburton,
and Kellogg Brown & Root, a division of Halliburton. These
outfits go in and build the projects because the locals have no
expertise.
which is to enrich the major money centres...
further reading.. click here => Wolfowitz at
the World Bank
