{"id":23584,"date":"2014-04-07T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c565cca1ff30509cbbed48bb3819ac9f"},"modified":"2014-04-07T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:57:06","slug":"clearing-the-fog-on-world-banks-doing-business-ranking-that-is-fueling-race-to-bottom-and-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2014\/04\/07\/clearing-the-fog-on-world-banks-doing-business-ranking-that-is-fueling-race-to-bottom-and-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG on World Bank&#8217;s &#8216;Doing Business&#8217; Ranking that is Fueling Race to Bottom and Revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke with Martin Kirk and Anuradha Mittal about the World Bank's \"Doing Business\" ranking which encourages countries to lower protections for workers, public health and the environment in order to attract businesses. It allows businesses to move factories and capital to countries with the lowest standards and fuels the race to the bottom. Of particular concern is the rising number of acres being sold to Big Ag which is displacing millions and destroying local food protection. The Rules and Oakland Institute are partnering in a new campaign, \"Our Land Our Business\" to end land grabs. They seek one million signatures by October. Visit OurLandOurBusiness.org to learn more and take action. Visit ClearingtheFOGRadio.org for more information about the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-on-world-banks-doing-business-ranking-that-is-fueling-race-to-bottom-and-revolt\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke with Martin Kirk and Anuradha Mittal about the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Doing Business&#8221; ranking which encourages countries to lower protections for workers, public health and the environment in order to attract businesses. It allows businesses to move fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23585,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions\/23585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}