The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has sheepishly defended itself in its government response to the International Development Committee's (IDC) report DFID and the World Bank.
Infrastructure
Environment
World Bank and climate change, NGO briefing
Civil society meeting on the latest developments of the World Bank's involvment in climate change and energy.
Environment
Background
Dialogue with NGOs and Lars Thunell, Executive Vice President and CEO, IFC
Dialogue with NGOs and Lars Thunell, Executive Vice President and CEO, IFC
Environment
Background
Towards a World Bank Group Strategic Framework on Climate Change and Development
Towards a World Bank Group Strategic Framework on Climate Change and Development
Infrastructure
Analysis
Facilitating whose power? WB and IMF policy influence in Nigeria's energy sector
Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the World Bank's energy portfolio still fails to reap the double dividend of renewable energy technologies that would tackle both energy poverty and climate change. Nigerian economic policies shaped by World Bank and IMF recommendations, policy agreements and conditionality have so far lead to a dysfunctional electricity privatisation process, a heavy and as yet unfulfilled reliance on reform of the gas sector, and the failure to make any widespread practical pr
Environment
News
Venezuela v. Exxon back to ICSID?
Venezuela has asked Exxon Mobil to go back to the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and drop lawsuits filed in other courts in London and New York.
Environment
News
Leaky logic: dams in three countries questioned
Recent reports have raised new questions about the impacts of World Bank-funded dams in Uganda and Laos, while in Mozambique the World Bank will likely be approached to fund another controversial project likely to be spearheaded by China
Infrastructure
News
Rural electrification: "financial viability" over welfare
A recent evaluation by the World Bank's Internal Evaluation Group on the welfare impact of rural electrification finds that only seven per cent of dedicated World Bank rural electrification projects have an explicit poverty reduction objective.
Accountability
News
Parliamentary committee scolds DFID for its World Bank infatuation
The UK's International Development Committee has sharply reprimanded the Department for International Development for its decision to hand over a fifty per cent increase in funding for the World Bank without sufficient analysis of whether or not this is good value for money.
Environment
Background
Highlights of BWI-UK network meeting with Caroline Sergeant, 7 February 2008
Highlights of NGO meeting with alternative executive director to the World Bank, Caroline Sergeant
