Two of the most egregious recent projects at the World Bank include the China Western Poverty Reduction Project and the Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project.  Both have been the focus of organized debates and protests by a variety of human and indigenous rights groups, and have even alarmed some of the World Bank Group's own member states.  In a precedent-setting victory last year, the Chinese Government was forced to withdraw 
the China Western Poverty Reduction Project from consideration.

Profiling Problem Projects:  Making the Case for Change at the International Finance Corporation, a collection of case studies that is the product of collaboration between a number of non-governmental organizations, is also available in both HTML and PDF formatting.