from the Freedom of Information Act in the US:
Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) FilesDescription: b. Country Files -
Documents reflect the review of loan proposals to ensure that U.S. foreign policy interests are being adequately reflected in the policies and operations of the banking institutions. Included are trade deficit reports, decision memorandums, environmental issues which affect certain projects, such as nuclear power projects and those involving highly toxic materials, strategic planning, economic situations, tax reform, financing, human rights issues including cases, testimonies and reports, investment proposals, option papers, economic trends report, trade policy measures, export subsidies, debt rescheduling agreements, trade estimate reports, tax reform, interest rates, economic highlights, strategic planning, economic reform, issues papers, viewpoints, Eximbank reviews providing discussion of country conditions and prospects within Eximbank, loan commitments from Eximbank to Board of Directors and related correspondence.
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do you know what that implies?
it means that the US is using banks and financial institution to push their interests in order to forward a whole slew of things that make sure that the "developing countries" remain poor so that they can do whatever the hell they want..
with Bush pushing and succeeding in putting Paul Wolfowitz into the chair of the World Bank, this allows the powers to do whatever they want...
Its real job has been to serve the interests of the major money-center banks and the multinational corporations who make the big bucks in World Bank development projects. The Bank, which is really a "fund," persuades a poor country like Ghana, for example, to build a new industrial complex in order make stuff for export. It will lend the money to Ghana -- which it gets from global taxpayers including you and me -- and arrange for the complex to be built by one of the favored corporations in the military-industrial complex. The list always includes Bechtel Corporation, Halliburton, and Kellogg Brown & Root, a division of Halliburton. These outfits go in and build the projects because the locals have no expertise.
which is to enrich the major money centres...
further reading.. click here =>
Wolfowitz at the World Bank