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Right Priorities for the Power Sector: An Evaluation of Dams Under PIDA
It’s well known that Africa suffers from an appalling lack of infrastructure. With a population of 1.033 billion people, the...
Right Priorities for Africa's Power Sector
An Evaluation of Dams Under the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) In 2012, African heads of state launched...
Catch Energy Where It Falls
In the 1990s, environmentalists in India told urban planners to find ways to channel rain from rooftops and gardens. The...
The Future is Renewables
Soumya Dutta is the Convener of the Climate and Energy Group in the Beyond Copenhagen collective in India, a network...
Bad Student: Has the World Bank Learned Its Lessons?
Last week, I attended the World Bank meetings in Lima to highlight the World Bank’s checkered history with financing large...
International Rivers 30th Anniversary Celebration: Rendezvous for Rivers
Ready for our festive gala event! Our 30th anniversary celebration was a beautiful thing to behold. The location was gorgeous,...
The Many Faults of El Quimbo Dam
Protesting El Quimbo DamPolinizacionesIn June of this year, dam builders began filling the reservoir behind El Quimbo Dam in Colombia....
Citing Lack of Independence, Experts Pull Out of Ethiopia’s GERD
GERD’s construction site. Courtesy of en.quantra.de One of the consultancy firms conducting studies on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)...
The World Bank and Dams Part 2: Dispelling Myths of Nam Theun 2
Given its fraught dams legacy, the World Bank promised that the Nam Theun 2 Dam in Laos would serve as...
Does the World Bank's "Success Story" on Dams Still Hold Water?
The World Bank will hold its Annual Meetings next week in Lima, in the face of stiff competition from new...