The coalition of Human Rights Associations in Chad has called for a national day of mourning on October 10, the date of the official inauguration of the Chad Cameroon Oil Pipeline.
Social services
Private Sector
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Leak reveals Bank oil pipeline threat to pillar of Georgian economy
Friends of the Earth has obtained clear evidence of the risks the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)…
Accountability
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Bank silent on corporate corruption in Lesotho
Controversy over the call for debarment of a Canadian contractor is proving a litmus test of the Bank's commitment to apply the same standards to corrupt Northern companies as it does to Southern governments.
Environment
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World Bank announces renewed big infrastructure push
The World Bank President has pledged that the Bank will revive its support for megaprojects and a new report expresses serious concerns about the Bank's track record in this area.
Land
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Bank pushed policies likely to cause famine - book
A former Bank consultant has charged the Bank with pushing policies which would have led to the starvation of a third of a million people in Sierra Leone.
Social services
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SAP protests still raging: Latin America examples
A summary of recent protests against IMF-imposed structural adjustment programmes in Latin America.
Social services
Background
WDR team finally tests GATS waters
Again and again in consultation forums, civil society groups have asked the World Development Report…
Conditionality
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World Bank and IMF forcing privatisation: new report
Privatisation imposed by the World Bank and the IMF can be harmful to the most…
Social services
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Bank nutrition projects ‘wasting resources’, report finds
Save the Children UK has recently released a report called “Thin on the Ground” claiming that the World Bank projects aimed at cutting children malnutrition in Bangladesh, Uganda and Ethiopia had failed to have any impact.
Rights
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Debate continues over services report
As the window for consultation on the draft of the World Development Report 2004 (WDR), Making Services Work for the Poor, draws to a close, debate continues. In response to civil society criticism of the November outline, the March draft of the Report strikes a more nuanced tone on some of the more contentious issues.
