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Downstream: How Corporations Control the Government w/ Matt Kennard

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The World Bank's Development Model Accepts the Virenar

The World Bank invests to an extraordinary extent in companies registered in tax domains where they'll pay less tax. The IFC helped Lesotho privatize their hospital and then it started eating up huge amounts of their health budget per year, extraordinary sums. And that is kind of replicated around the world. They're advising governments to privatize certain things and then investing companies that might benefit from those privatizations. It's a conflict to be interested.

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