(June 17, 2000) President René Préval signed a petition calling on international creditors to annul Haiti’s swelling $1.2bn (£800m) debt. Forty percent of Haiti’s debt was incurred under Duvalier family misrule, when loans were regularly skimmed by regime cronies.
Larry Summers, US Treasury secretary, breaks up creditor consensus on Nigeria
(June 16, 2000) US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has reversed US government policy and broken the consensus of creditors, by agreeing that Nigeria should be granted “multilateral debt reduction ….by the international financial community”.
Letter to ADB from Probe International, Re: Klong Daan wastewater treatment project
(June 16, 2000) Probe International urges ADB to respond to concerns raised by Thai groups last month about ADB-financed projects and programs in Thailand.
Letter to ADB from Probe International,
(June 16, 2000) Probe International urges ADB to respond to concerns raised by Thai groups last month about ADB-financed projects and programs in Thailand.
Banyat rejects spillway suggestion, but agrees to set up a joint committee
(June 15, 2000) Interior Minister Banyat Bantadtan yesterday dismissed a proposal by the committee charged with resolving the Pak Moon dam crisis to open all the dam’s spillways until the end of August.
At long last, a way out of dam dispute
(June 14, 2000) The national committee set up by the government to resolve the protracted Pak Moon dam protest has come up with a proposal that it hopes will put an end to the months-long standoff.
UK firms paid a pounds 1.2M bribe to get dam contract
(June 14, 2000) British firms are among a dozen of the best known international construction companies involved in a trial in the remote South African kingdom of Lesotho.
Panel to push for opening of spillways: Deal proposed to end protracted protest
(June 14, 2000) The national committee charged with solving the Pak Moon dam crisis will meet Interior Minister Banyat Bantadtan today to discuss its plan to open the dam’s spillways for three months.
Jakarta Declaration for reform of Official Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies
(June 13, 2000) Over 50 representatives of Indonesian and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and social movements convened in Jakarta and South Sumatra 1-7 May, 2000 for a strategy meeting on official export credit and investment insurance agencies (ECAs). They agreed on the following Declaration, endorsed by 347 NGOs from 45 countries.
Letter to ADB President Tadao Chino from People’s Network of 38 Organisations
(June 13, 2000) We see the disasters caused by ADB funding and loan conditions that cause severe impacts on poor people, farmers, labourers, and the resources of the country.
China’s Three Gorges raises questions for future dams
‘There are better methods of electricity production being locked out in order to protect a bigger project like the Three Gorges,’ says Probe International’s Patricia Adams.
Highlands hearing may land multinationals in hot water
(June 12, 2000) Today a landmark case gets under way in Maseru with the potential to embarrass some the world`s largest construction companies.
Bigger fish in the dock in Lesotho trial
(June 11, 2000) The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) R25-million corruption trial restarts in Maseru next week.
Huge Viet dam devastates Se San valley and its people
(June 10, 2000) EARLIER this year the first reports began to emerge from Ratanakkiri that problems had developed with the Se San river, and that the source of these problems was upstream at Vietnam’s new Yali Falls dam.
Pak Mool cost more than it’s worth
(June 9, 2000) EARLIER this year, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its performance review of Thailand’s most controversial hydro scheme, the World Bank-financed Pak Mool dam, confirming what observers have long suspected: The project is an economic failure and a growing financial liability to Thailand’s electricity ratepayers.
Probe International 