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Broken Promises: How World Bank Group Policies Fail to Protect Forests and Forest Peoples' Rights

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Author(s)Forest Peoples Programme
DateApril 2005
Reference typeBook
Pages55 pp.
PublisherForest Peoples Programme, Moreton in Marsh

Summary
This critical review illustrates how World Bank Group (WBG) forest-related policies and practice are posing an ever greater threat to forests and forest-dependent peoples around the world. Amongs many others, the review analyses the WBG’s involvement in so-called Community Forest Management in India, the potentially catastrophic Forest Code in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and devastating oil palm plantations in Indonesia.

Themes
Organisational Responses
Forestry

Geographic coverage
India
DR Congo
Indonesia

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