Projects funded by the World Bank Group's private sector arm fuel violent conflict – it's time to reform the system

By Brian Ganson, Professor and Head, Centre on Conflict & Collaboration, Stellenbosch University
Anne Spencer Jamison, Assistant Professor of International Economics, Government, and Business, Copenhagen Business School
Witold Jerzy Henisz, Vice Dean and Faculty Director, ESG Inititative; Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management, University of Pennsylvania

A single International Finance Corporation project, on average, causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced.

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