Topic > World Bank Group Case Study - 770

According to your research, India was the largest client of the World Bank. He explained some projects and their conditions and realities. In India there was the Narmada Valley Development Plan, according to this plan the Indian government planned to build the Sardar Sarovar Dam across the Narmada River. According to Caufield, a land of 320,000 people was acquired, which involved a large portion of natives and the correct figure for them was 225,000. In 1991, an independent assessment conducted by the Bank for Project concluded that it had severely affected India's flora and fauna due to pollution. Due to the project there has been significant siltation and salinisation of the water, causing a serious ecological problem. Ironically it could only provide half the promised irrigation water. In 1992 the bank abandoned the project. But it didn't end there, there were many projects of the bank which received only criticism, for example the Sardar Sarovar project, the Karjan dam, the Damanganga project. In Indonesia, the implementation of the proposed project caused devastation of the island's soil. The Bank concentrated only on GNP and completely neglected ecological factors, i.e. the poverty of the soil on the outer islands. Caufield approvingly quotes a former Bank economist, Herman Daly: “There is no point in having thousands of highly educated people