Questions about what advice MIGA provided to the Ethiopian government in its role as mediator in a $6m suit filed against the country by the Swiss multinational.
MIGA
Private Sector
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Spas, malls and five star hotels
As part of the World Bank Group, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a publicly funded, political-risk insurance provider, is supposed to share the Bank’s overarching goal of poverty alleviation and environmentally sustainable development.
Infrastructure
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Bank plans private sector shake-up
In February the World Bank’s Board will consider a new Private Sector Development Strategy.
Environment
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Arrests of Tanzania mine activists
In late November the Tanzanian authorities took action against an organisation which has been investigating the death and dispersal of artisanal miners at a project backed by the World Bank Group.
Environment
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Tanzanian authorities attempt to silence activists on Bulyanhulu case
Tanzanian authorities have arrested Rugemeleza Nshala, President of the Lawyers Environmental Action Team (LEAT), and raided the house of another LEAT lawyer, Tundu Lissu in connection with their investigations into abuses and irregularities at the World Bank-backed Bulyanhulu gold mine.
Private Sector
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MIGA responds to critics
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has issued a 13-page response to the report Risky Business published by Friends of the Earth and other NGOs this summer.
Private Sector
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MIGA Attacked by NGOs and Congress
An NGO report has called for the World Bank Group arm which insures private investments to be shut down.
Private Sector
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Kyrgyzstanis oppose incinerator
NGOs in Kyrgyzstan have raised serious concerns about plans for an urban waste incinerator to be built by Italian company ITI.
Private Sector
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Bank private sector arm under fire from NGOs, Congress
It has been a bad summer for the World Bank Group arm which insures private investments.
Private Sector
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Let them drink Coke
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a private sector arm of the World Bank Group announced that it is collaborating with the European Union to provide a $23.
Finance
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Bank to guarantee economic policy reforms
The World Bank Board recently agreed that the Bank can extend its partial credit guarantee instrument to cover structural and social policy reforms.
Accountability
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World Bank appoints senior policy compliance advisor
The World Bank Group has appointed the first IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor/Ombudsperson.
