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> Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.

And we're finding out about this only now?

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The World Bank specifically and the neo-colonialist world-view it embodies have both been severely criticised in pretty much this vein since not too long after the bank was founded.

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Lots of people have known this and other things for a very long time, occasionally it leaks into the mainstream media.

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According to the ProPublica podcast[1] (published this past week, so probably the catalyst for this 2015 article on HN), The World Bank was collecting data for decades on displacements, but wasn't consuming it for anything useful. The ICIJ + ProPublica FOIAed the data and painstakingly assembled it.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/the-breakthrough-how...

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