New BWP research finds the Word Bank's approach to Paris alignment is being used to a significant extent to impose ‘green conditionalities' on borrowing countries, especially in the Global South.
Rights
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14 October 2003
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Conditionality
News
14 October 2003
Thousands Protest IMF Accord in Honduras
Thousands of protesters across Honduras blocked streets and burned tires Tuesday to demand the government not renew a debt payment agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
Rights
News
10 October 2003
World Bank arm OKs first loan to Haiti since 1998, Anna Willard
The World Bank's private sector financing arm has approved its first loan for Haiti since 1998, for a company making Levi jeans in a controversial free trade zone.
Environment
News
10 October 2003
Miners worry as World Bank weighs financing future
Land
News
10 October 2003
Starved by the IMF
In the 1990s, the IMF/World Bank pushed the reorganization of Burkina Faso's agricultural sector, so the government provided new seed varieties and other support services to cotton farmers to increase yields for export. The result? Burkina Faso has an abundance of cotton, the price of which is very low because of massive U.S. subsidies, but an insufficient quantity of food, so people starve.
Accountability
Background
9 October 2003
Bank Information Center Chad Cameroon webpage
Environment
9 October 2003
GRAMP-TC (Chadian NGO)
Finance
News
7 October 2003
India gives $ 1 billion for an IMF in Asia
Trade
News
2 October 2003
Critics call IMF, World Bank, WTO ‘hidden culprits’
Finance
News
2 October 2003
The painful reality the IMF ignores
Environment
Analysis
2 October 2003 | Reports
Monitor Group report on Borjomi mineral water company
The Monitor Group consultancy report on the impact of the BTC pipeline on the Georgia mineral water sector.
Environment
News
2 October 2003 | Letters
Danone letter to the Georgian Glass and Mineral Water Company
Letter explaining Danone decision to pull out of potential investment because of concerns about oil pipeline routing.
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