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International Rivers Shocked About US Pick for World Bank President
According to US Treasury officials and Reuters News, the Bush administration has put forward Paul Wolfowitz as its candidate for...
153 NGOs Urge World Bank Not to Support Nam Theun 2
NGOs from around the world call on World Bank President Wolfensohn not to finance the Nam Theun 2 project. …from...
NGO Comments on the Use of Country Systems in Bank Operations
The World Bank has recently published the paper, "Issues in Using Country Systems in Bank Operations", for comment. The following...
What’s Wrong with the World Bank’s Approach to Resettlement?
Lots, Says Longtime Resettlement Expert and Former WCD Commissioner The following is an excerpt from the new book The Future...
Ríos Silenciados: Ecología y Política de las Grandes Represas
Spanish Version of Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, launches in Buenos Aires Comprarlo desde la Fundación...
Tropical Hydro is a Significant Source of Greenhouse Gases: A Response to the International Hydropower Association
The International Hydropower Association released a four-page document entitled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoirs” at the UN climate convention negotiations...
NGO Letter to German Environment and Development Ministers
To: Minister Jürgen TrittenFederal Minister for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety Ms. Heidemarie Wieczorek-ZeulFederal Minister for Development Cooperation Dear...
The World Bank and Civil Society: Forward to the Past?
A Review of The World’s Banker, A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations...
A Preliminary Review of the Impact of Dam Reservoirs on Carbon Cycling
Abstract The International Hydropower Association (IHA) asserts that hydropower has a very low, or even positive impact on climate change...