Publications

In this issue: Sakhalin fishermen’s struggle for justice * Can the EIB deliver on development? * The memory hole * Scraping the bottom of the end-of-pipe barrel * Social issues SOS from EBRD Environmental Department * Time to wake up from South-East Europe’s pipeline dreams…

The new report by Environmental Defense and Bank Information Center, examining the World Bank Group’s implementation of its post-EIR commitment to factor governance into decisions about the selection and sequencing of extractive industries operations.

“Grounded in Washington”, a report from Bankwatch and Bank Information Center, finds that the World Bank Group’s implementation of its Extractive Industries Review (EIR) in Europe and central Asia is neglecting a significant number of commitments which the Bank’s managment s…

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 an…

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 extr…

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

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 an…

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 minin…