EBRD approves €500 million loan for TAP, as Italy announces it will review its support for project
Extractives
Infrastructure
News
Investigation on World Bank support for Mongolia mining project deferred
The Inspection Panel has deferred a decision to investigate a complaint regarding environmental, social and economic damage related to a World Bank funded mining project in Mongolia.
Environment
News
World Bank DPL paves way for offshore drilling in Guyana, despite CSO concerns
Bank approves $35 million development policy loan to help Guyana commence offshore drilling, amidst CSO legal challenge to offshore drilling permits
Environment
Analysis
As World Bank signals end of extraction finance, CSOs call for end to its other fossil fuel funding
Despite World Bank's One Planet Summit announcement that it will stop funding oil and gas extraction after 2019, it still has much to do to fully decarbonise its lending portfolio.
Environment
Commentary
World Bank support for Haitian mining: far from a gold standard
World Bank support for a draft mining law in Haiti is criticised for lack of stakeholder engagement, as civil society fears that the plan will do little to protect local communities.
Infrastructure
Background
Issue overview: World Bank and energy
What’s the issue? Energy is a crucial economic sector which has a disproportionate influence on…
IFI governance
Background
What are the trends in the energy sector?
Notes from a meeting on energy during the World Bank spring meetings.
Environment
News
IFC criticised over Peruvian mine investment
IFC’s accountability mechanism has criticised a series of errors in IFC’s social and environmental risk management of its Peruvian Quellaveco mine investment.
Infrastructure
Analysis
World Bank pitches mining to drive energy investment in Africa
A World Bank report calling for closer collaboration between mining and energy companies in Africa is criticised for underplaying risks and neglecting more efficient energy options for the poor.
Environment
News
World Bank support for mining expansion criticised
Criticism of World Bank-supported mining activities in Haiti, Honduras and Armenia reveal that the Bank is still associated with controversial extractives projects.
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World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2018
28 September 2018
The World Bank's role in crafting a neoliberal hegemony with a feminist face
The World Bank’s recent gender equality approach constitutes an attempt at establishing a consensus over the regulation of the economy.
25 September 2018