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Breaking the bonds: an international campaign takes aim at World Bank bonds.(global south rising)
On a rainy Washington, D.C., morning four years ago, Vineeta Gupta set out at dawn with a letter in her hand. A medical doctor from the Indian state of Punjab, Gupta had witnessed her state's public health sector turn private at the behest of the World Bank. Under privatization, her patients were forced to pay "user fees" before they could receive basic health care services. Gupta says she saw treatment for the vast majority of Punjab's poor slip beyond their reach. "I remember an anemic woman lying along a road in need of blood," she recalls. "She was shrunken, deathlike, but she was not admitted to the hospital because she couldn't pay."
On that April morning ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Breaking the bonds: an international campaign takes aim at World Bank...