(April 1, 2005) Canada warned yesterday that foreign donors are losing interest in helping Kenya due to mounting allegations of massive government corruption in the east African country.
PRESS RELEASE World Bank dam will generate debt burden for Laotians
(April 1, 2005) The World Bank’s decision to finance the US$1.2 billion Nam Theun 2 hydro project will become an intractable debt burden for Laotians in years to come, warns Probe International, a Canadian-based foreign aid watchdog.
PRESS RELEASE: World Bank dam will generate debt burden for Laotians
(April 1, 2005) The World Bank’s decision to finance the US$1.2 billion Nam Theun 2 hydro project will become an intractable debt burden for Laotians in years to come, warns Probe International, a Canadian-based foreign aid watchdog. "It is projects like Nam Theun 2 that eventually need debt forgiveness because they are not economically viable and they don’t generate the wealth needed to repay the loans," said Patricia Adams, Probe’s executive director and an expert on odious Third World debt.
Huge Laotian dam gets World Bank financing
(April 1, 2005) Environmental groups say the Laotian government isn’t equipped to manage revenue from the Nam Theun 2 dam or look after the rights of its people.
Wolfowitz sets Africa poverty aim
(April 1, 2005) Paul Wolfowitz, the new head of the World Bank, has said his main goal will be to achieve "real success" in cutting poverty, particularly in Africa.
PRESS RELEASE World Bank dam will generate debt burden for Laotians
(April 1, 2005) The World Bank’s decision to finance the US$1.2 billion Nam Theun 2 hydro project will become an intractable debt burden for Laotians in years to come, warns Probe International, a Canadian-based foreign aid watchdog.
Russia to sign Iraq debt write-off deal
(April 1, 2005) Russia will sign an agreement this year finalising a plan to write-off most of the money owed to it by Iraq, a Finance Ministry official said.
The Pollution Control Department wants Klong Dan to go ahead
(March 31, 2005) The Pollution Control Department (PCD) will propose the government push ahead with the corruption-ridden Klong Dan wastewater treatment project in Samut Prakan with minor changes.
Grand corruption blocking aid to Kenya – Canada
(March 31, 2005) The Canadian government warned Kenya on Thursday it faced an uphill task in persuading donors to pledge aid at a meeting next month because of concerns over high-level "grand corruption".
Negotiating Riparian Recovery
(March, 2005) Applying BC Hydro Water Use Planning Experience in the Transboundary Se San River Basin by Grainne Ryder
Bigger obstacles ahead for World Bank’s Wolfowitz
(March 31, 2005) Paul Wolfowitz’s appointment as the new head of the World Bank has underlined some of the institution’s inherent weaknesses but has also made clear a need to reform the existing framework for development assistance.
PRESS RELEASE Bankrolling Nam Theun 2
(March 31, 2005) Today the World Bank is expected to approve financing for a massive US$1.2 billion dam in Laos despite international concern that the project’s revenue will be mismanaged or siphoned off by corrupt officials and contractors.
“Odious Debts”
(March 30, 2005) We’ve all heard of the Third World’s debt crisis, of hopelessly poor nations unable to pay their debts, and of the human suffering and environmental consequences of their desperate predicament. Amid emotional calls from some to forgive the debt outright come the sober solutions from bankers and bureaucrats, with their seemingly unending stream of Brady and Baker Plans, and bewildering variants of them.
Why Kofi Annan should quit the UN
(March 30, 2005) The latest damning report on the United Nations oil-for-food program gives further ammunition to those who have been calling for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
One small step for Africa
(March 30, 2005) The Africa Commission report could mark the beginning of the end of Africa’s decline but there is no quick way back up.
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