Canadian government defends more aid for disastrous Manantali Dam
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The World Bank has cancelled a highly contentious loan to China for an “anti-poverty program” that would have resettled 58,000 Chinese farmers in an area claimed by Tibetans as part of their homeland.
Dams on trial: The World Bank and the “cancer of corruption” — The Lesotho case
(September 1, 2000) Antonio Tricarico Campagna per la riforma della Banca mondiale.
Viets say sorry for Se San flow
(April 28, 2000) VIETNAMESE authorities have apologized for discharging water from the Yali falls dam in the recent months causing flooding and current surges that claimed the lives of at least five people.
PRESS RELEASE: EDC preempts court decisions, finances second Biobio dam in Chile
(August 28, 2000) Canada’s Export Development Corp. is financing Chile’s largest and most controversial hydro dam, even though the Chilean courts have yet to decide whether or not the dam on southern Chile’s Biobío river is legal.
Support for irrigation charges but collections seen as a problem area
(April 27, 2000) The Asian Development Bank yesterday backed plans to charge farmers for use of water in irrigation but said implementation would be difficult.
There has to be a better way
(August 25, 2000) For the first time, ministers and poor villagers sat down as equals on stage to provide information on an issue of public interest.
Debt relief leaving the poor worse off, says Oxfam
(August 21, 2000) International efforts to cut the debts of the world’s poorest countries are leaving some paying tens of millions of dollars more to their western creditors, Oxfam said today.
US Policy Towards Nigeria: An Agenda for Justice
(August 21, 2000) If the U.S. government is serious about supporting democracy, it should immediately and unilaterally cancel Nigeria’s U.S. debt and publicly pressure Europe to follow suit.
G8 summit host Japan urged to implement international Anti-Corruption Convention
(July 20, 2000) Corruption will be high on the agenda of the summit due to start in Okinawa, Japan, on Friday.
Sole wins more time in fraud trial
(August 19, 2001) The corruption trial of Ephraim Sole, the dismissed chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, resumed this week in the Maseru high court after a two-month recess, only to be halted within a day.
Naked city
(August 18, 2000) According to prominent Indonesian analyst Jeffrey Winters, it’s time for American authorities to investigate Freeport-McMoRan’s alleged payoffs to General Suharto and his cronies.
Irregularities in the Three Gorges bidding procedures
(August 17, 2000) Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend reports that there are irregularities in the bidding procedures for Three Gorges dam.
Rallying against big dam projects
(August 15, 2000) Demonstrators outside the Pakistani Embassy in Washington protest the Kalabagh Dam project.
India project shows risks of intervening, despite sound goals
(August 14, 2000) “World Bank officials concede that, once again, one of their massive Third World investments has exacted a severe toll on citizens whose lives ultimately were supposed to have been made better by economic development.”
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