World Bank email leaks reveal internal row over 'light touch' $50bn loans

Leaked emails show more money could be made available for 'damaging' power and mining projects Environmentalists and human rights campaigners have sounded the alarm at radical plans to ease conditions for World Bank loans, enabling more than $50bn (£29bn) of public money a year to be made available for large power, mining, transport and farming projects. Leaked emails seen by the Observer reveal that senior figures at the bank feared that light-touch regulation would lead to an increase in "pro...