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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...
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...
Climate Change: Mekong Delta Heads for Troubled Waters | BBC World Service
Cai Rang, one of the largest floating fruit and vegetable markets in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, is a popular tourist attraction.BBC...
Chixoy Reparations at Last: Checks Are In
Teodora Chen, massacre survivor, receives the first check for reparations.La Prensa Libre A ceremony to honor Mother Earth was the...
Lao Officials To Inform Neighboring Countries About Dam Construction Schedule | Radio Free Asia
Site of Don Sahong Dam on the Lower Mekong, March 2014.Radio Free Asia This article originallly appeared in Radio Free...
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,...
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...