Articles by Claire Provost
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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Waterstones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“Silent Coup is investigative journalism at its best, charting the rise of corporate power after World War II, where the freedoms fought for were redefined.”
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Claire Provost – The Guardian,
15 May 2017
New Guardian research shows private security workers outnumber public police officers for the majority of the world – in a business that now dwarfs what is spent trying to end global poverty.
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Claire Provost and Matt Kennard – Mother Jones,
21 Mar 2016
Is the International Finance Corporation’s primary role to alleviate poverty? I think you could question that. They’re pretending to be an investment bank. Serving as both adviser and investor can create perverse incentives. The tension between the IFC’s mandate to help end global poverty and turn a profit has only grown. The bank’s private investment arm is increasingly chasing profits at the expense of its anti-poverty mission.
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Claire Provost, Liz Ford and Mark Tran – The Guardian,
24 Feb 2014
A landmark G8 initiative to boost agriculture and relieve poverty has been damned as a new form of colonialism after African governments agreed to change seed, land and tax laws to favour private investors over small farmers. Ten countries made more than 200 policy commitments, including changes to laws and regulations after giant agribusinesses were granted unprecedented access to decision-makers over the past two years.
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