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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

Bankwatch Mail 26

Bankwatch Mail | 20 September, 2005 | Download PDF

In this World Bank monothematic issue: Key IFC review threatens Wolfowitz’s noble mission * Czech Republic’s carbon cowboys exposed * World Bank rubs salt into Uzbek wounds * Why Serbian pensioners are calling World Bank reforms ‘genocidal’ * The Memory Hole * Canadian mining company discovering more than it bargained for in south-east Bulgaria * EIR still not getting through in Russia or in Washington