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AIIB financial intermediaries

Official document | 19 January, 2018 | Download PDF

In 2017, the AIIB has invested in three financial institutions – the Indonesia Regional Infrastructure Development Fund, the India Infrastructure Fund, and the Emerging Asia Fund – and that further institutionss are on the proposed projects list, inclu


How could participatory budgeting be introduced in the post-2020 EU Budget?

Briefing | 17 January, 2018 | Download PDF

This is an analysis of best practice amongst the growing trend towards democratising public spending through participatory budgeting. With recommendations for the introduction of pilot processes within the post-2020 EU Budget, empowering citizens in sp


Comments on the Nenskra supplementary environmental and social studies

Policy comments | 15 January, 2018 | Download PDF

The revised supplementary studies for the Nenskra project fail to properly perform a cost/benefit analysis. It lacks an assessment of the energy efficiency alternatives, the environmental externalities, the opportunity costs and even an economic inte


Doomed to coal

Study | 4 January, 2018 | Download PDF

This study, prepared by the Kazakh Center for the New Environmentally Friendly Technologies (CINEST) provides an overview of the state and prospects for the development of coal-mining and energy-generating industries in Kazakhstan, in the context of th


Broken rivers. The impacts of European-financed small hydropower plants on pristine Balkan landscapes

Study | 19 December, 2017 | Download PDF

Eight hydropower projects in Albania, Croatia and Macedonia financed with European public money have damaged biodiversity and are in urgent need of increased monitoring and restoration measures.