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Extractive Industries Review Implementation: Assessment of the World – Bank Groups Follow-up Measures

Study | 10 December, 2005 | Download PDF

Based on several NGOs assessment, the reports concludes that the World Bank Group’s implementation of the EIR, including direct Management commitments, has been disappointing. Governance considerations, relevant to the extractive industries, are not systematically applied and do not appear to be having any influence on project selection or sequencing. Operational polices across the board are relying heavily on Bank staff discretion, both for Development Policy Lending and project lending.

Implementation of the Management Response to the Extractive Industries Review

Official document | 9 December, 2005 | Download PDF

This paper provides a report to the Board on progress in implementing the Management Response to the reports of the Extractive Industries review and the World Bank Groups’s own evaluations. It follows abn interim update to the Board in July 2005. The paper overviews key extractive industries (oil, gas, mining – EI) related developments in the last year, summarizes WBG activities in the sector in the year, and reviews specific progress in implementation of the MR.

Extractive Industries Review Reports

Official document | 4 November, 2005 | Download PDF

Striking a Better Balance Executive Summary English | French | Russian | Spanish ) Volume I: The World Bank and Extractive Industries

BTC Pipeline – An IFI Recipe for Increasing Poverty

Study | 11 October, 2005 | Download PDF

Report reveals the real impacts of BP’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline and catalogues the Georgian people’s unfulfilled hopes of increased welfare and development arising from BP’s billion dollar project, hopes which have been fuelled by project backers the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Letter from EIB to the European Ombudsman concerning delay of publication of information about the D8 motorway project

Advocacy letter | 11 October, 2005 | Download PDF