(June 24, 1999) China slammed the United States on Thursday for opposing a controversial $160 million World Bank loan that would help resettle impoverished Chinese farmers in an area inhabited by ethnic Tibetans.
Canada’s Executive Director to World Bank abstains from China-Tibet project loan vote
(June 24, 1999) The focus of my intervention is on the Bank’s adherence to its own internal policies and procedures– a seemingly technical issue that has important ramifications for the Bank’s reputation– Why?
Probe International’s letter to Canadian World Bank executive director
(June 23, 1999) Please find attached a copy of a May 26th letter from the Canada Tibet Committee and endorsed by Probe International, urging Canada’s Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, to withhold support for the World Bank’s proposed “China Western Poverty Reduction Project.”
World Bank postpones vote on moving farmers
(June 23, 1999) The World Bank board postponed its consideration of a project that would resettle 58,000 ethnic Chinese farmers onto traditionally Tibetan lands.
Probe International’s letter to Canadian World Bank Executive Director
(June 23, 1999) Please find attached a copy of a May 26th letter from the Canada Tibet Committee and endorsed by Probe International, urging Canada’s Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, to withhold support for the World Bank’s proposed “China Western Poverty Reduction Project.”
China presses Canada to support loan
(June 22, 1999) China is pressing Ottawa to drop its opposition to the granting of a World Bank loan that would pay for the relocation of impoverished ethnic Chinese into Tibetan homelands.
World Bank project in China criticized
(June 18, 1999) World Bank staff have rejected accusations by Western advocacy groups that a proposed poverty-alleviation project in a remote and barren area of China is detrimental to Tibetans living there, and will push for the plan’s approval at a meeting of the bank’s board of directors Tuesday.
Tibetans oppose World Bank project
(June 15, 1999) The World Bank has admitted that a number of Tibetans have objected to a project involving the immigration of tens of thousands of Chinese farmers into a Tibetan area of Qinghai province despite the risks they face of expressing their views in public.
Probe Alert June 1999
Villagers occupy World Bank dam site to demand compensation
Letter from Canadian NGO’s to Finance Minister Paul Martin
(May 20, 1999) This letter is written to register our concern and opposition to the proposed World Bank project entitled “The China Western Poverty Reduction Project” (WPRP), which is scheduled for approval on June 8, 1999. We urge you withhold Canadian support for the project.
Letter from Canadian NGO’s to Finance Minister Paul Martin
(May 20, 1999) This letter is written to register our concern and opposition to the proposed World Bank project entitled “The China Western Poverty Reduction Project” (WPRP), which is scheduled for approval on June 8, 1999. We urge you withhold Canadian support for the project.
Forgive the debt, then stop the lending
(May 17, 1999) The world press is in a flap over Third World debt relief, one of the hot items on the agenda of the G7 leaders’ summit scheduled to take place in Cologne this weekend.
Tibet lobby upset at World Bank scheme
(May 13, 1999) Among the ravines and abysses of the nearly barren mountains of Eastern Qinghai, China, live 57,775 impoverished farmers who have won the development lottery.
The debts of corruption
(May 10, 1999) A global movement is asking Western nations to forgive ‘odious’ debt extended to despotic regimes. The cause has merit, but opposition is building.
All aboard the EDC money train: The Export Development Corporation uses government money to prop up smokestack industries while discouraging private-sector competition in the credit insurance business
(January 11, 1999) The Export Development Corporation funds environmentally-damaging industries with taxpayer money, writes Patricia Adams.
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