The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has issued a 13-page response to the report Risky Business published by Friends of the Earth and other NGOs this summer.
Private Sector
Finance
News
HIPC not delivering debt relief
The Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative is failing to deliver debt relief, reports the Financial Times (9/10/01).
Social services
News
New report on Bank’s private sector strategy
The World Bank’s proposed new private sector development strategy is criticised in a response from Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU).
Private Sector
Analysis
At whose disposal? Institutionalising the market
The latest World Development Report (WDR) places the market at the centre of any institutional framework for development and confirms the Bank’s neoliberal approach to development (October 2001).
Social services
News
Bank private sector strategy opposed
NGOs have expressed “dismay” at the World Bank’s proposed private sector strategy.
Private Sector
News
Kyrgztani environmentalists concerned about Bank-backed incinerators
NGOs in Kyrgyzstan have raised serious concerns about plans for an urban waste incinerator to be built by Italian company ITI.
Private Sector
News
Bank private sector arm under fire from NGOs, Congress
It has been a bad summer for the World Bank Group arm which insures private investments.
Infrastructure
News
Nigerian groups demand moratorium
In August, about 100 civil society organisations, most based in the Niger Delta, halted a consultation with Peter Woicke, Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Private Sector
News
Kyrgyzstanis oppose incinerator
NGOs in Kyrgyzstan have raised serious concerns about plans for an urban waste incinerator to be built by Italian company ITI.
Private Sector
News
MIGA Attacked by NGOs and Congress
An NGO report has called for the World Bank Group arm which insures private investments to be shut down.
