(April 1, 2007) World Bank documents regarding an alleged conflict of interest on the part of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz in relation to Shaha Riza, a former staff member and personal companion […]
Bank Information Center
(April 1, 2007) An independent multilateral bank watchdog presents its monitor of news and opinion on the Paul Wolfowitz debate.
World Bank anti-corruption drive blunted as China threatens to halt loans
(March 27, 2007) China, the World Bank’s second-biggest customer, warned that it might halt future borrowings if Paul Wolfowitz did not rein in the Bank’s anti-corruption investigative practices.
Cross-debarment by MDBs could become routine
(March 22, 2007) A decision by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could signal a change in business as usual for MDBs: multiple bank blacklistings for companies found guilty of fraud could become the new trend.
Lugar supports EBRD decision
(March 2, 2007) The decision marks the first time any development bank has debarred a company for fraud or corruption committed in a project financed by another MDB.
WB blacklists Bhasha dam surveyors
(November 12, 2006) The World Bank blacklisting of Lahmeyer International has jeopardized the future of a dam scheme the company is working on in Pakistan; although widely reported by the media, Pakistan authorities say they need to verify the company’s debarment first before taking action. Work on the Bhasha dam project in Pakistan is in jeopardy now that the World Bank has blacklisted the German engineering firm, Lahmeyer International, after finding the company guilty of paying bribes in the multi-billion dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).
Odious Debt: definition, application and context
(October 30, 2006) The co-author of Advancing the Odious Debts Doctrine addresses how the doctrine can be applied and in which contexts.
Export credit the new ‘odious debt’ of the Third World
(September 1, 2006) Patricia Adams, executive director of Probe International, speaking to the European Commission Conference on Export Credit Agencies and Sustainable Development, 20 June 2006, Brussels.
Free the Third World of export credit agencies
(June 21, 2006) The evidence of boondoggles made possible by Export Credit Agency (ECA) support – the Three Gorges dam, the Norwegian shipping deal to Ecuador, the Manantali dam in the Senegal River basin, the Bataan nuclear power station in the Philippines, pulp and paper mills to Indonesia, the OK Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea, military exports to Iraq – is extensive and well documented.
Export credit debt prevention
(June 20, 2006) Three steps to protecting future generations from export credit agencies.
Beware the big, bland wolf
(June 5, 2006) The first year of Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.
Wolfowitz’s ‘saber rattling’ against corruption raises eyebrows
(May 13, 2006) Chad, India, Kenya and Congo have all felt the sting of the cuts aimed at demonstrating how serious World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is about fighting corruption.
Wolfowitz’s new comb
(May 11, 2006) Is the spit and comb guy from Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 using corruption as a smoke screen to stall debt relief?
World Bank’s war on corruption
(March 7, 2006) "Corruption is the biggest threat to democracy since communism," says World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who plans to make reducing graft in the countries where the bank does business a priority.
Paul Wolfowitz’s statement to the Media Centre in Aceh, Indonesia
(April 5, 2006) I think for Indonesia from the things I hear and read, most Indonesians agree that the country’s biggest development problem is corruption. . . . What {is encouraging} is that so many people in Indonesia are taking this problem seriously.
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