Word: shiva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statistics that support his views, and a reader might reasonably assume that he has undertaken exhaustive research. In fact, the book betrays a disturbing ignorance. The World Bank, for instance, does not squander money by making loans to poor nations "that will be paid back when the Pope sits shiva." Were it only so -- then the bank might stop making its ecologically dubious investments. Much of the recent criticism leveled at the institution has been that it makes too much money from those loans, not too little...
...their talks, Shiva and Norberg-Hodge stressed the need for concern for the Third World environment, which they said has declined rapidly due to modernization by Western developers...
...environmental movement has come up as a response to irresponsible corporate enterprise, which uses any means in its power to increase its profit margin," said Shiva...
According to Shiva, a dam is being built on the Ganges River in India at the expense of the people of the area. As a result, Shiva said, hundreds are now displaced from their homes...
...Shiva called for "global environmental protection standards" in response to such events...