ADB in Asia : Creating Poverty through Corporate Colonization

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MOBILIZE HONOLULU MAY 4- 11 2001!!!

In May 2001, a little-known institution called the Asian Development Bank will hold its Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. As it has done for the last 35 years, Bank staff and directors will meet behind closed doors to make decisions that will affect people living throughout Asia and the Pacific-decisions that have impoverished the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and wreaked environmental destruction.

Like other international financial institutions, the ADB has come under increasing fire in recent years. At the ADB