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Financial Crisis Stops Xalala Dam - For Now
The indigenous Ixcan communities are strongly opposing the proposed Xalala Dam in Guatemala. Partly due to their opposition, private funding...
So What About Tim Geithner?
So Barack Obama picked Timothy Geithner as his future Treasury Secretary today. What is the new secretary’s track record, and...
The Problem With Larry Summers
Barack Obama is considering appointing Larry Summers as his Treasury Secretary. Summers, a former World Bank chief economist and Treasury...
New Independent Review Documents Failure of Narmada Dam
For decades, the Sardar Sarovar Dam on India’s Narmada River has been a powerful symbol of what is going wrong...
Hu Jia Represents China’s Best Hope
The European Parliament last week awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights award, to...
The Dam Crusader Is Still With Us
A previous post on this blog claimed that John Briscoe had retired from the World Bank. This is not correct....
Dam Crusader’s Swan Song
A high-level independent evaluation found two years ago that the World Bank’s research agenda was often politicized, and that “technically...
World Bank: Lending Up For Coal and Large Hydro, Down For Renewables
According to a report soon to be released by Oil Change International, the World Bank Group increased its lending for...
European Governments To Pull Out Of Ilisu Dam?
By sending an Environmental Failure Notice to the Turkish authorities, the governments of Germany, Austria and Switzerland have started the...