In a recent article by the news outlet 100Reporters, it was noted that email communications from a high-powered official with “immense influence in public policy decision around the world” would not be made public.
And they weren’t talking about Hillary Clinton…
The World Bank made $65.6 billion in loans, grants and investments between 2013 and 2014 (giving its presidents substantial weight in foreign affairs), yet presidents of the Bank “cannot be subpoenaed by Congressional investigators or requisitioned by investigative reporters under any freedom of information law. That is because the World Bank categorically refuses to release internal communications of any of its executives or staff.”
“Its interventions in poor countries from Africa to Asia to Latin America have frequently been beset by scandal, amid allegations that bank-funded projects have displaced poor communities, underwritten human rights abusers and produced poor results.”
Read this article to learn more about how a lack of accountability can have a negative impact.