The World Bank
Subtitle: undermining local people, enriching global elites
By: text and ideas by Dana Clark, Valeska, Delphine Djiraibe & Emilie Thenard ; illustrated by Valeska
Publisher: Center for International Environmental Law?
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Oil industries; Government policy; World Bank
Notes: Cover title.

The comic strip suggests that private sector development is not a panacea to poverty. Without the necessary elements in place -- good governance and respect for human rights -- private sector engagement can deepen the cycle of poverty. The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline was one of Africa’s largest public-private development projects funded by a three-company oil consortium, the World Bank, and its private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, with the promise that the oil revenue would be used to reduce poverty.

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