the IFC has offloaded its 3.35 per cent equity stake, worth up to $7.5 million in the Singapore-based global commodities trader, Olam International
Inspection Panel
Rights
News
Bujagali dam under second investigation
As a result of claims submitted by the Ugandan NGO, National Association of Professional Environmentalists, the Bujagali dam is under investigation again
Rights
News
Addressing the legacy of big dams
Two recent publications by NGO International Rivers unearth how the legacy of past World Bank dam projects remains unaddressed.
Accountability
Commentary
El Banco Mundial y el Gasoducto de África Occidental
Análisis crítico sobre el gasoducto de África Occidental, un proyecto apoyado por el Banco Mundial.
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2007
At this year's annual meetings, both the World Bank and the IMF faced serious challenges to their continued relevance and legitimacy. Observers were keen to see the tone that new heads Robert Zoellick and Dominique Strauss-Kahn would set for the institutions.
Finance
Analysis
Programme conditions, project safeguards: Quo vadis World Bank?
This briefing clarifies the landscape of programme conditions and project safeguards and what it implies for a move towards responsible lending standards.
Accountability
News
Deforestation and double standards
As the Bank prepares to launch its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility forestry experts fear that this framework will benefit industrial scale logging.
Accountability
News
Ghana Inspection Panel request
COHRE has filed a complaint to the Inspection Panel.
Accountability
News
New staff at Inspection Panel
In September Roberto Lenton of Argentina started at the Inspection Panel
Environment
Commentary
The World Bank and the West Africa Gas Pipeline Project
A critical analysis of the the World Bank-supported West Africa Gas pipeline, by Michael Karipko of Environmental Rights Action, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
IFI governance
News
Bank replicates past hydropower mistakes?
Concerns raised about the Nam Theun 2 dam in Lao PDR, the Bujagali dam in Uganda and the Inga dam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) suggest that the Bank may be replicating past mistakes in the flagship projects of its new generation of 'high-risk high-reward' hydropower.
Infrastructure
News
WAGP: delays, investigation
The construction of the controversial West Africa Gas Pipeline (WAGP) has been delayed by instability in the Niger delta.
