(January 26, 2001) The more affected it is by corruption, the poorer a country’s environmental performance, a new study to be presented in Davos shows.
Debt relief needs an epiphany
(January 5, 2001) Forgiving the poorest countries’ loans is only a start, say Sara Stratton and church groups campaigning for reform.
Export Credit Agency finance in Indonesia
(January 1, 2001) EDF report concludes that ECAs played a major role in financing environmentally and socially unsustainable investments by assisting foreign investors in supporting Suharto’s system of economic and political monopolies.
Africa’s Development Crisis – Another Berlin Conference is Possible
(January 1, 2001) A huge chunk of the external debt of African countries is composed of debt contracted in questionable circumstance. Two-thirds of Nigeria’s over $28 billion external debt was contracted between 1983 and 1998 when the military held sway.
Where things stand with Fortis’s proposed Chalillo dam
(December 24, 2000) The last few months have seen major developments in the campaign to stop Fortis’s hydro scheme in Belize’s Macal River Valley. Here’s an update of recent events.
Corruption in the third world is our problem
(December 13, 2000) Britain is slow to punish businessmen who offer bribes abroad.
Coughing up for apartheid
(December 8, 2000) Foreign companies should face up to the truth about their roles in apartheid, a recent NGO conference in Germany concluded.
OECD agrees to clamp down on bribery in export credit transactions
(December 6, 2000) OECD member states announced in Paris today that they have agreed on an action programme to deter bribery in government-supported export credit transactions.
At the public trough!
(December 3, 2000) “Fortis seeks and gets Canadian funding”. Article quotes Grainne Ryder.
Canadian aid agency pays engineering firm to justify dam construction in Belize
(November 21, 2000) Hydro scheme threatens jaguar, Scarlet Macaw habitat.
Publicly guaranteed corruption: corrupt power projects and the responsibility of export credit agencies in Indonesia
(November 2000) According to Peter Brossard, foreign companies in Indonesia secured exorbitant profits by participating in Suharto’s corrupt regime. All the while, these comapnies were given political and financial support by northern governments, international financial institutions and export credit agencies.
Letter to the OECD: the OECD, export credit agencies and corruption
(November 5, 2000) A letter endorsed by 78 NGOs from 33 countries proposes that the OECD’s Export Credit Group adopt measures to prevent corruption in ECA projects.
Publicly guaranteed corruption
(November 1, 2000) According to Peter Bosshard, foreign companies gained from Indonesian corruption while recieving political and financial support from northern governments, international financial institutions and export credit agencies.
Transnational Civil Society Coalitions and the World Bank: Lessons From Project and Policy Influence Campaigns
(Nobember 1, 2000) The World Bank is a premier development institution, employing thousands of highly-trained analysts and shaping the development projects and policies of governments in every region of the world. In the realm of development actors, the Bank is an institutional Goliath—sometimes wrong, but almost always influential, given its financial resources and its capacity for research and policy analysis.
Thai media appearances
(October 26, 2000) A summary of public appearances made by Grainne Ryder during her trip to Thailand in October, 2000.
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
Probe International
Lisa Peryman
Probe Media
Other News Sources
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