During the 1980s and 1990s, an era of neoliberal reform, global development institutions like the World Bank began promoting and financing the collective titling of indigenous territories.
And once again, we -- on the outside looking in -- can only hope that Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the Bank itself take a hard look at the facts at issue and make the changes necessary in order to restore a measure of trust and confidence in this global lending and development institution.
For example, during the recent global financial crisis, the development institution that was able to come to support emerging and developing countries was the World Bank – that countercyclical role was very important, and a real success story.
As the world's leading development institution, providing financial and technical assistance to developing countries, drafting libraries worth of research, and leading global initiatives, what the World Bank does, how it changes, and what it represents are issues of considerable importance.
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The Summit's goal is to increase the attention and priority that governments and key global health and development institutions give to family planning.
17. Modernizing the international financial institutions and global development architecture is essential to our efforts to promote global financial stability, foster sustainable development, and lift the lives of the poorest.
And he's projected a more assertive global role for China, including an international development institution modeled after the World Bank and expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Another way is with generous economic assistance programs, and support for the global development banks, to help others build the institutions they need to be successful at globalization and to cushion its negative social and ecological side effects.
