EDITORIAL - Criticism of World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund - Editorial

Ecologist, The, Sept, 2000

Whatever is decided, it is time to reject the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO's tired and recycled platitudes about poverty and reform, together with their absurd and self-serving claims that the poor would be the greatest victims if anything fundamental were to change. Such arguments no longer convince.

The public is beginning to understand the sheer iniquity of the common agenda of these institutions and its terrible consequences for the vast majority of people on this beleaguered planet. A movement for change has begun, as we have seen in Seattle and Washington DC, and it can only grow.