Residents of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area in West Bengal will be the first to pay a new tax on water.
Water
Environment
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Complaints panel finds major problems in Coal India mines
An official report has found that villagers in Eastern India, have suffered harm to their livelihoods as a result of a Bank-backed coal mining project.
Environment
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Complaints panel report finds social problems in Coal India mines
A new official report has found that villagers in Jharkhand state, Eastern India, have suffered harm to their livelihoods as a result of a Bank-backed coal mining project.
Social services
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Ghana water privatisation disputed by independent analysts
An international fact-finding mission on plans to reform the water sector in Ghana made its conclusions public before the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF.
Social services
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Bolivia water latest
Bolivia provides further lessons from Bank-backed water privatisation.
Accountability
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Lesotho corruption verdict
Following a seven month trial, Canadian company Acres International was convicted on two counts of bribing an official to secure contracts for the Lesotho Highland Water Project, which received financing from the World Bank.
Social services
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World Bank pushed to open up Bolivia water arbitration
The International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, an independent part of the World Bank Group, is set to begin hearings on a Bank-backed water privatisation deal in which Bechtel took over the public water company in Bolivia’s third largest city, Cochabamba.
Rights
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The World Bank at the World Summit: Green, Marxist or unchanged?
The World Bank has been very active at the Johannesburg summit.
Social services
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World Bank pushed to open up TNC arbitration process
NGOs protest “secret court” to decide on Bolivia water privatisation follow-up.
Infrastructure
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Commissioners urge better water strategy
The twelve prominent individuals who served as commissioners on the World Commission on Dams have written to the World Bank President demanding that he do more to implement their recommendations.
