(May 13, 1999) Among the ravines and abysses of the nearly barren mountains of Eastern Qinghai, China, live 57,775 impoverished farmers who have won the development lottery.
The debts of corruption
(May 10, 1999) A global movement is asking Western nations to forgive ‘odious’ debt extended to despotic regimes. The cause has merit, but opposition is building.
EDC’s Quebec tilt hardly ‘commercial’
(March 1, 1999) Commentary by Patricia Adams regarding EDC as a commercial financial institution.
Export Credit Insurance and the fight against international corruption
(February 26, 1999) Transparency International proposes a broad framework to encourage transparency in export credit agencies.
Letter from Probe International to Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs
(February 24, 1999) Re: CIDA’s plans to sell Canadian nuclear technology to Thailand.
What Thai citizens should know about Canada’s nuclear power program
(February 1, 1999) Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) wants to sell a CANDU (Canadian Deuterium Uranium) reactor to Thailand. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited has not had a single order for a CANDU reactor in Canada since 1982, but in the last decade, AECL has sold four reactors to South Korea, two to China, and two to Romania. Now it is hoping for additional sales to these countries, as well as to Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. AECL’s sales are taxpayer financed through the Export Development Corporation, a federal Crown corporation.
All aboard the EDC money train: The Export Development Corporation uses government money to prop up smokestack industries while discouraging private-sector competition in the credit insurance business
(January 11, 1999) The Export Development Corporation funds environmentally-damaging industries with taxpayer money, writes Patricia Adams.
Probe International submission to the Export Development Act Review
(December 21, 1998) The Export Development Corporation is unnecessary, costly, and unaccountable. It misleads the Canadian public and is an environmental wrecker. This patronage agency should be shut down.
Submission to the Export Development Act Review, Part 2
(December 21, 1998) EDC Sinks Third World Citizens Debt
Submission to the Export Development Act Review
(December 21, 1998) Export Development Corporation is unnecessary, costly and unaccountable. Misleads the Canadian public is an environmental wrecker. Patronage agency should be shut down. By Patricia Adams.
CANDU Exports
(December 1, 1998) The Ministry of Industry last month signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian and South Korean partners to develop Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant.
Debt creating aspects of export credits
(August 1, 1998) Export Credit Guarantees should, as a rule, only be extended for development purposes. However, increases in export credit guarantees seem to reflect an exporter-driven drive for business, rather than a borrower-driven need for funding.
World Bank promises dam resettlement reform
(June 23, 1998) The World Bank said on Tuesday some of its dam resettlement programmes were inadequately monitored, and promised to do more to protect the people these projects displace.
World Bank’s renewed interest in Kalabagh Dam
(June 18, 1998) Pakistan’s plan for economic recovery has run into trouble following a dispute over a controversial dam the government intends to build in central Punjab province.
Dam trapped in a tragedy of errors
(May 1, 1998) You could call this the height of error. One of the largest hydro-electric projects of the country is stuck for the last four years because Government agencies made crucial errors while calculating the height of the dam.
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