“According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.”

—  Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 4, The World Bank and Woman's Rights, p. 67

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