The World Bank and the Question of Immunity
IFI Watch Bangladesh, Vol.- I, No.- I, 4 September 2004
This paper (PDF) explores the origins and implications of an unprecedented move in a Cabinet approved a draft bill to provide blanket immunity to the World Bank in Bangladesh on 4 July 2004 by seeking an amendment to the International Financial Organisations Order 1972. The paper raises questions accountability and democracy stemming from this decision.