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"The orher day, I was at the world bank with Paul Wolfowitz, the new presidenr. I was visiting with the trade unions of the water utility to tell him on behalf of the citizens of Delhi, 'We don't need world bank loans to run our water systems. We have competence enough to do it. And we definitely will not allow our water to be privatized.' "I think the biggest impact that we've had is the recognition that nature's tremendous diversity is not there to be restricted. Our duty as humans is to protect it." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"One country in this region, Malawi, was forced to use their stored corn to pay their debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and world bank (groups that represent the interests of international bankers). Now they are experiencing famine because their food reserves were taken. In order to get seeds, they need to take out a loan from the IMF or world bank, using their land as collateral. They can't buy the seeds they want. Instead, they are being forced to buy genetically modified seeds, which only work for one year. Thus, they will have to take out another loan." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Elizabeth Lopez, a former psychologist with the world bank who specialized in well-being. She developed a simple test that would help SLEEP TIGHT imnmmiTmir.nMimiiiJiiimjiiMuiMflmEiimitmffm Getting enough sleep keeps the immune system functioning smoothly, decreases the risk of heart attack, and recharges the brain. Adults both young and old need between 7 to 9 hours per night. To help get it, go to bed at the same time every night and wake up the same time each morning; keep your bedroom dark, quiet, and cool; and use a comfortable mattress and pillows." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"On the basis of information about the impending El Nino, Ecuador borrowed $180 million from the world bank to offset the effects of abnormal weather on the national econ- omy; Peru borrowed $250 million. Agricultural officials in Cuba ordered an early start to the sugar harvest to avoid potentially damaging storms. International relief agencies stockpiled relief supplies." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "According to the world bank, the optimum is fifteen million. Then, with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy, the rains failed. Drought first took hold in the north near the desert margins, then moved southward in subsequent years. By 1968 rainfall in the more marginal areas was less than half that of the 1950s as the drought extended well beyond the Sahel. The dry cycle persisted well into the 1980s, making the twentieth century one of the driest in the past one thousand years. This time nobody died of thirst, for they could drink from the deep wells." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"She had read an article in the Costa Rican newspapers about the Blue Zone project, and, having recently retired from the world bank, she was looking to get involved with something, her new plan de vida. So Luis put her in touch with me, knowing our project was short on local expertise. When we met, I immediately recognized her as a godsend. A Costa Rican native, she spoke fluent Spanish, and thus served as a perfect liaison between Gianni and Michel (who did not speak Spanish) and the interviewees." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Regional economic groupings such as the EU and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) operate in conjunction with global intergovernmental organizations, such as the world bank group and the World Trade Organization, and take over more and more of the functions of national governments. Control of the flow of goods, information, and people shifts toward the global level." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Medicinal plants: An expanding role in development, world bank Technical Paper 320 (Washington, DC: The world bank, 1996); Leaman, D.J., Conservation, trade, sustainability and exploitation of medicinal plant species, in P.K. Saxena (ed.), Development of plant-based medicines: Conservation, efficacy, and safety (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 1-15. 4. Pank, F., 1997, Zweiter Weltkongress fur Arznei- und Aromapflanzen, Zeitschrift fur Arznei- und Gewiirzpflanzen, 3(1): 36-39. 5. Franke, R." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"David introduced me to the other guests that evening: a couple from America (the husband worked at the embassy) and another twenty-eight-year-old named Yasuo, who worked as a consultant to the world bank. The embassy man was clearly a spook—I could tell from the tone of his questions and the job he held at the embassy. (I would reveal his name, but then I could be charged with a federal crime.) Yasuo had a more relevant job—he was doing a "value chain analysis" of the coffee industry." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Also, according to data published by the world bank,4 the diets at the time of our survey were very similar to those consumed in earlier years. This was ideal because those earlier years represented the time when the diseases were initially forming. UNIQUENESS OF DATA One idea that makes our study unique is our use of the ecologic study design. Critics of the ecologic study design correctly assume that it is a weak design for determining cause-and-effect associations when one is interested in the effects of single causes acting on single outcomes. But this is not the way that nutrition works." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Falling somewhere between Yasuo's world bank "nuke 'em out of existence" prescription and my hope of strengthening the co-ops, the government has eliminated KPCU's monopoly on milling coffee from farmer cooperatives but has not eliminated the co-ops themselves. It also allows cooperatives to market their own coffee and find their own buyers, even though the buyers have to purchase the coffee at the auction (where they may be outbid by others, thereby increasing farmers' income)." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Indeed, according to the world bank, the benefits to the nation have been enormous.2 Costa Rica, having set aside at least one-quarter of all its land for preservation, is now one of the most stable and robust democracies in Latin America, with a longstanding commitment to economic growth and social development. The combination of steady economic growth and sustained investment in human development has also led to a substantial reduction in poverty, which fell from 31.9 percent in 1991 to 18.5 percent in 2003, while extreme poverty decreased from 11.7 percent to 5.1 percent in the same period." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Haydi Ktzlar Okula! The world bank is not necessarily known as a suicide-prevention program. But that's what it became for Askin Tavuz, a thirteen-year-old girl from the city of Diyarbakir, in southeastern Turkey. Both out of work, Askin's parents decided that sending their daughter to school had become a luxury the family could no longer afford. But school, and her dreams of becoming a lawyer, meant so much to Askin that she wrote a letter to her principal threatening suicide if she could not attend." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "This system, which included the world bank and the International Monetary Fund, wasn't just a reaction to the herculean task of rebuilding European cities and German and Japanese economies. It was an attempt to ward off the economic slump the planet faced between World Wars I and II, when trade between nations slacked, markets collapsed, and the global economy lapsed into the Great Depression. After the war, the Allied nations, led by the United States, advocated a system of reduced international trade barriers, convertible currencies, and trade among one another." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "For now, though, all we need to do to eliminate vampire power is to unplug appliances when we're not using them, or to plug them into power strips that we can switch off when we leave a room, jjf Power and Light in the Developing World ¦mm Across one-third of the planet, nightfall still brings darkness; according to a 2002 world bank report, nearly 2 billion people live without electricity. When they want to see at night, they burn things: wood, dung, kerosene, candles. Using fire for light is not only incredibly inefficient (only about 0." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Many people who protest against global institutions (such as the world bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization) are protesting not against free trade but against transnational corporations' use of such institutions to control once-sovereign governments—and further diminish the power of communities. A major way to create and maintain community is through how we spend our money." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Institutions were created to regulate these agreements: the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the world bank (formally called the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development). An initial loan of $250 million to France in 1947 was the World Bank's first act. The idea was to create a credible structure for international confidence to dwell in, so that investment could take place in a world traumatized by war, depression, and more war. It worked pretty well for about thirty years." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Not only does the coffee crop not generate enough money, but the world bank, the IMF, and the international lending community have greatly inhibited the ability of national governments to assist farming communities by forcing them to slash rural health care and environmental and educational budgets under "structural adjustment" policies. As a result, many coffee communities have turned to grassroots, self-help efforts as the only viable means to improve their people's lives." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Medicinal plants: An expanding role in development, world bank Technical Paper 320 (Washington, DC: The world bank, 1996); Leaman, D.J., Conservation, trade, sustainability and exploitation of medicinal plant species, in P.K. Saxena (ed.), Development of plant-based medicines: Conservation, efficacy, and safety (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 1-15. 4. Pank, F., 1997, Zweiter Weltkongress fur Arznei- und Aromapflanzen, Zeitschrift fur Arznei- und Gewiirzpflanzen, 3(1): 36-39. 5. Franke, R." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Urban farming has been growing rapidly—worldwide more than 800 million people are engaged in urban agricuhure to some degree. The world bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organizarion encourage urban farming in efforts to feed the urban poor in developing countries. But urban farming is nor restricted to developing countries; by the late 1990s one out of ten families in some U.S. cities were engaged in urban agricultute, as were two-thirds of Moscow's families." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "When compared to farms greater than six thousand acres in size, farms smaller than twenty-seven acres were more than ten times as productive; some tiny farms—less than four acres—were more than a hundred times as productive. The world bank now encourages small farms to increase agricultural productivity in developing nations, where most landholders own less than ten acres. A key difference between small farms and large industrial farming operations is that large farms typically practice monoculture, even though they may grow different crops in different fields." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"That ruse was put to rest when in 1999 the world bank conducted a definitive study showing that tobacco ad bans really did reduce smoking. The research concluded that "bans on advertising and promotion prove effective, but only if they are comprehensive, covering all media and all uses of brand names and logos."35 Indeed, the evidence suggests the need to impose more, not fewer, restrictions on reckless corporate marketing to protect public health. Can Anything Be Done? People (especially parents) invariably ask me: what can we do? I must admit this is a tough question for me to answer." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"The nation is sensitive enough to market pressures to have begun building a nonasbestos brake manufacturing plant, a joint Japanese-Chinese venture financed by the world bank. But those brakes will be for export; the domestic market is another matter. Areas of the Tibetan plateau and the arid Tsaidam basin of Tibet's far northeast are home to expanding asbestos mines.26 The Chinese domestic housing market employs increasing amounts of asbestos cement." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"European or other firms may "invest" in renewable energy programs, known in the market as clean-development mechanisms, or CDMs, in China or elsewhere in order to offset their own volume of greenhouse gas emissions. The world bank estimates that the market in CDMs was close to $30 billion in 2006, and that sixty percent of those investments went to China." Those investments were in renewable energy like wind and solar power, energy-efficiency technologies, and updating old factories to eliminate emissions like hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to erosion of the ozone layer." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "A desire to avoid the shortsightedness of the West is growing as the environmental consequences of China's rapid development hit home: as many as 700,000 deaths a year in China are attributable to air pollution, according to the world bank.5 The head of the country's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) estimates the economic losses from pollution and environmental damage amount to the equivalent of ten percent of the GDP every year." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Since the mid-1970s," Simons wrote, "much of the aid from Western governments, the world bank, and the European Union has been channelled through" NGOs that "are prepared to toe the line on population control."20 Thus, American-backed donor agencies, including AID and the world bank, have used their economic power to influence NGO policy.29,30 The world bank, which was present [at the September 5-13, 1994 Cairo, Egypt 'International Conference on Population and Development' meeting]... in full force, . . . emerged as a major funder of population control." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.)

"Already home to some of the largest cities in the world, China expects to see roughly 400 million more people—about half of its rural population—move into cities by 2030. The world bank estimates that between now and 2015 roughly half of the world's new building construction will take place in China. For China to meet these challenges, it will have to change the way it builds cities. Traditional designs and contemporary planning are worse than insufficient, they're dangerous." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Latin America ended up with a foreign debt of $430 billion and sub-Saharan Africa with per capita incomes lower than in the 1970s. The world bank pampered India's central planners and fed one of the world's biggest, most inefficient, and most corrupt public sectors. How inefficient? In 1988?989, almost half of India's 222 biggest government companies sustained losses. The result was a central government deficit five times as big, in relative numbers, as the U.S. budget deficit.32 None of this is a revelation. It's public knowledge." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"So now do we have to factor higher school fees into our pricing because the Kenyan government knuckled under to the world bank? Yes, according to Justus Mwathi. And what about corruption and bureaucracy? If farmers are getting only 63 percent of the sales price instead of the legally mandated 80 percent, do we have to pay higher prices to ensure that the farmer gets enough money to feed his family? Does social justice require us to basically pay ransom for these farmers who are being held hostage by their own government and administrators?" - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"I was visiting with the trade unions of the water utility to tell him on behalf of the citizens of Delhi, 'We don't need world bank loans to run our water systems. We have competence enough to do it. And we definitely will not allow our water to be privatized.' "I think the biggest impact that we've had is the recognition that nature's tremendous diversity is not there to be restricted. Our duty as humans is to protect it. And I think we have reversed the thinking in agriculture, which was driving toward monocultures. We have changed the paradigm to respect diversity in farming." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

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