(February 12, 2007) Indian police have been tasked with getting to the bottom of a “promise” by Quebec-based engineering conglomerate, SNC Lavalin, to provide Canadian aid to Kerala in exchange for it getting a multi-million dollar hydro-electric project.
Bank’s graft crusade exaggerated, critics say
(February 7, 2007) Watchdog groups cite conflicts of interest in the Bank’s core mission, and the Washington-based lender’s keenness to brush up its image.
Dam project brings Laos cash and controversy
(January 4, 2007) Sop Hia, Laos Near this dusty village of 51 houses, amid remote hills in the center of landlocked Laos, a country where electricity and running water are scarce and 80 percent of people still live on subsistence farming, a giant project is taking shape that has multinational companies and lenders buzzing.
Citizens file complaint against international finance corporation pulp and paper mills in Uruguay
(December 16, 2006) The Center for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA)
Address to the European Commission conference on export credit agencies and sustainable development
(June 20, 2006) Thank you very much to FERN and to the European Commission. It is an honour for me to be here to discuss this very important subject – how to prevent more unpayable Third World debts being created by the world’s export credit agencies.
Export credit debt prevention: speech by Patricia Adams
(June 20, 2006) I suspect the vast majority of ECA loans, credits, and guarantees to the Third World – which have doubled and now account for 34% of all Third World official debts – could be deemed "odious."
Export credit debt prevention
(June 20, 2006) Three steps to protecting future generations from export credit agencies.
In involuntary resettlement for China projects, the World Bank ignores its own guidelines
(May 31, 2006) For some years now, the World Bank has been promoting the People’s Republic of China as a model of “best practice” for the developing world in the contested area of involuntary resettlement. This evaluation has been widely repeated, and most recently has been adopted in several papers commissioned by the World Commission on Dams (WCD http://www.dams.org), a body mandated to conduct an independent review of the “development effectiveness” of big dams and water projects around the globe.
Lao banks on aid but donors losing patience
(April 5, 2006) Laos, Asia’s second poorest country, is relying more than ever on foreign aid, but some donors are getting fed up with corruption and waste in the isolated communist nation.
Western Companies Sell Their Souls for the Massive Chinese Market
(February 20, 2006) Even with the full weight of the Communist regime behind it, the censorship effort would have been futile without equipment and know-how supplied by Western vendors like Cisco Systems Inc., SunMicrosystems Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. And with the world’s three dominant Internet companies – Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft – in a blind rush for a piece of China’s spectacular wealth, Beijing has found all the willing accomplices it needs to strip the Internet of its anonymity, its freedom, and to turn it into yet another tool of repression.
World Bank says benefits of Chinese hydro dam ‘impossible to quantify’
(January 18, 2006) The World Bank has given China’s second-largest hydro project a satisfactory rating on the resettlement of 46,000 people, despite having no data to assess whether anyone is better or worse off.
Chinese dam benefits ‘impossible to quantify’: World Bank
(January 16, 2006) The World Bank has given Ertan, China’s second-largest hydro project, a satisfactory rating on the resettlement of 46,000 people, despite having no data to assess whether anyone is better or worse off.
The dams balance sheet
(January 30, 2006) Waterlogging, ineffective irrigation, changing crop patterns, the promise of electricity – these lines from a Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) protest song highlight the recurrent issues that plague not just the Sardar Sarovar Project, but large dams across India.
Environmentalists lose the dam battle in Laos
(December 1, 2005) Opponents argue that little money generated by the dam will reach the poor and much will be pocketed by communist party chiefs. Corruption is rife in Laos and the country’s legal system is renowned for being underfunded with limited powers.
WeBAD says Chalillo concerns still linger
(November 22, 2005) Last week, the Belize Electric Company Limited (BECOL) commissioned the US$34 million, 7-megawatt Chalillo dam and announced that the new hydro-facility had become fully perational.
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