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A look at the global sacrifice zone

current and future us and World Bank (wb) investments in Orissa are facilitating a battery of environmental, public health-related and social crises, according to a recent report by the Washington d c-based Institute for Policy Studies (ips). The wb loans will help transform the eastern Indian state of Orissa into one of the world's most polluted regions, warned ips. The wb is directly financing the least controversial aspects of these loans