Meeting between UK NGOs and UK Alternate Execituve Director to the World Bank Caroline Sergeant on 5 September 2008.
Infrastructure
IFI governance
Background
UK NGO meeting with the Secretary of State for International Development, on the World Bank
Summary of meeting: the main agenda items were (1) World Bank governance; and (2) Climate change.
Environment
News
'Climate bank' or 'fossil fuel bank'?
Analysis of the investment figures from the most recent fiscal year once again cast doubt on whether the World Bank Group is willing to give up its addiction to fossil-fuel projects that spur climate change.
Environment
News
Voluntary transparency not enough in IFI extractive operations
A recent NGO assessment of World Bank and IMF operations in over 55 resource-rich countries finds that the IFIs have lacked consistency in insuring transparency of the revenues generated from extractive industries.
Environment
News
Pipe dreams shattered in Georgia
The World Bank and others have tried to convince the region's poor that oil pipelines in the Caucuses would bring economic prosperity and strengthen democracy in the region. However, this Caspian oil game is partly to blame for the increased poverty, conflict and misery that now plagues the thousands of citizens displaced in the August conflict in Georgia.
Accountability
News
IFI inspection mechanisms slam Bank faults in Uganda and Nigeria
The Bujagali dam project in Uganda and the West Africa Gas Pipeline project in Nigeria have been roundly criticised by the World Bank's Inspection Panel.
Environment
Background
Highlights: Meeting of UK NGOs with UK Alternate Executive Director to the World Bank
Meeting between UK NGOs and UK Alternate Execituve Director to the World Bank -Caroline Sergeant- on July 22, 2008.
Environment
News
New African dams to power mining
Two dam projects are being rushed to power the mining booms in Africa.
Infrastructure
News
Agribusiness vs. food security
The causes of and remedies for the food crisis are hotly contested; how this rupture in the status quo is resolved will have decisive implications for the roles of the IFIs as well as more broadly for global food security and ecological sustainability.
Infrastructure
Background
The World Bank and transport
Given that the World Bank's primary activity in its first decades of operation was financing infrastructure projects, the fact that the transport sector is the single largest sector for Bank lending should come as no surprise. However with the prevalence of concerns about underinvestment in social sectors, transport lending was on the decline in the late 90s and early part of this century. Now the pendulum is swinging back and transport sector lending is on the rise in both the public and privat
