(March 13, 2006) Last year was celebrated as the "Year of Africa." Tony Blair proposed a doubling of aid to the continent; the world’s rich nations promised debt elimination; and the Bush administration talked up its remarkably good record in boosting foreign assistance.
‘CPI-M leaders involved in Lavalin case’
(March 14, 2006) The Congress party has accused the central leadership of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) of involvement in a controversial deal with the Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin.
Bank denies information on Pinochet
(March 16, 2006) The New York branch of The Bank of Chile refused to hand over the records of the Pinochet Foundation, which is suspected of having been used by the ex Chilean dictator to launder money.
World Bank corruption may exceed $100 billion
(May 13, 2006) World Bank corruption may exceed $100 billion and while the institution has moved to combat the problem, more must be done, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Thursday.
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.
Saatchi hired to help Kenya’s ‘war on corruption’
(March 7, 2006) The Kenyan government has hired the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising agency to handle its nationwide anti-corruption campaign.
Canadian power company gets failing grade from Belizeans
(May 2, 2006) In its report card released today, the Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy gave
Canadian power giant, Fortis, a failing grade.
No political motive in Lavalin case: Chandy
(March 2, 2006) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has denied a charge that the UDF government had referred the controversial SNC-Lavalin-Kerala State Electricity Board deal to the CBI to leverage political mileage in the coming assembly polls.
How the Three Gorges project was funded
(May 1, 2006) Where did the money come from to build the dam? For a start, all of China’s power consumers were forced to pay in advance for Three Gorges electricity, even though many will never use it.
Lesotho: NGO calls for audit of dam construction tenders
(April 25, 2006) Following allegations of corruption, a local NGO has appealed for an audit of the tenders allocated in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), the world’s largest water transfer operation.
Africa Action confronts World Bank and IMF on health impact, corruption
(April 22, 2006) Ahead of this weekend’s Spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Africa Action and allied organizations today staged a theatrical "health inspection" of these institutions, finding them to be a public health hazard in Africa and other impoverished regions.
Lesotho dismisses dam appeal
(April 14, 2006) Italy’s biggest construction company Impregilo has lost an appeal to challenge the right of the high court in Lesotho to try it for bribing officials to win a major dam contract there.
At World Bank, a pledge to focus on corruption
(April 13, 2006) Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, pledged Tuesday to push the fight against corruption to the center of the bank’s global development work in a speech outlining a comprehensive and detailed anti-corruption agenda.
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