Content Tagged: Country Assistance Strategies (World Bank)

Books

• Anthologies

  Anthologies

  This section has material on four chapters I authored in four different books, plus a preface and essay I authored for a book on Ashoka published in Bengali in Bangladesh in 2016.

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Articles

• How the World Bank Fails The Poor

  How the World Bank Fails The Poor

  This article examines the record of the first several years of James Wolfensohn's tenure as president of the World Bank, based mainly on internal Bank evaluation reports. This piec...

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• Testimony, Prepared Statement, and Discussion, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part III

  Testimony, Prepared Statement, and Discussion, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part III

  My testimony concerned the Asian Development Bank, subsequently the discussion with Senator Lugar also dealt with the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, especiall...

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• Aarhus Convention
• Aarhus Convention
• ABN Ambro
• ABN Ambro
• Access International
• Access International
• accountability
• accountability
• Aceh
• Aceh
• Adam Smith
• Adam Smith
• ADB Office of the Auditor General (OAG)
• ADB Office of the Auditor General (OAG)
• affected communities
• affected communities
• Afghanistan
• Afghanistan
• African Development Bank
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• agent (used in corruption)
• agent (used in corruption)
• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• agricultural program loans
• agricultural program loans
• Albert Schweitzer
• Albert Schweitzer
• Algeria
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• Amartya Sen
• Amartya Sen
• Annual Performance Review (IFC)
• Annual Performance Review (IFC)
• Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (World Bank)
• Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (World Bank)
• Annual Review of Portfolio Performance (World Bank)
• Annual Review of Portfolio Performance (World Bank)
• Anti-Corruption Policy (ADB)
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• Argentina
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• Aristotle
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• arms exports
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• Arnold Toynbee
• Arnold Toynbee
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Articles of Agreement (ADB)
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• Arun III dam
• Arun III dam
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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• Asian financial crisis
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• Attorney General (Sri Lanka)
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• Australia
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• Australia Export Finance and Investment Corporation (EFIC)
• Ayittey George
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• Balfour Beatty
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• Bangladesh
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• beer breweries (MIGA support for)
• beneficence
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• Berne Declaration
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• Bio Bio River
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• Black Frank
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• Board Inspection Committee (ADB)
• Board Inspection Committee (ADB)
• Bosnia
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• Brazil
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• Cambodia
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• Canadian Export Development Corporation
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• CAO
• CAO
• capacity
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• CARE
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• Carlos Slim (World Bank support for)
• Carlos Slim (World Bank support for)
• carve out (OECD ECA)
• carve out (OECD ECA)
• CAS
• CAS
• Castells Manuel
• Castells Manuel
• Cernovada nuclear reactor (Romania)
• Cernovada nuclear reactor (Romania)
• Chad-Cameroon oil development and pipeline project
• Chad-Cameroon oil development and pipeline project
• Change Bulletin (World Bank)
• Change Bulletin (World Bank)
• Chao Phraya River (Thailand)
• Chao Phraya River (Thailand)
• Chashma Right Bank Irrigation Project (Pakistan)
• Chashma Right Bank Irrigation Project (Pakistan)
• Chevron
• Chevron
• China
• China
• Citibank
• Citibank
• civil society
• civil society
• Coca Cola bottling plants
• Coca Cola bottling plants
• COFACE
• COFACE
• Colombo (Sri Lanka)
• Colombo (Sri Lanka)
• Common Approaches on Environment (OECD)
• Common Approaches on Environment (OECD)
• Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (IFC)
• Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (IFC)
• conditionality (for loans)
• conditionality (for loans)
• conflict of interest
• conflict of interest
• consultation
• consultation
• corporate welfare
• corporate welfare
• corruption
• corruption
• corruption refugees
• corruption refugees
• cost overruns
• cost overruns
• Country Assistance Strategies (World Bank)
• Country Assistance Strategies (World Bank)
• country programming
• country programming
• Country Strategy Papers (ADB)
• Country Strategy Papers (ADB)
• cross debarment
• cross debarment
• culture of loan approval
• culture of loan approval
• debarment
• debarment
• Department of Institutional Integrity INT (World Bank)
• Department of Institutional Integrity INT (World Bank)
• development effectiveness
• development effectiveness
• Devesh Kapur
• Devesh Kapur
• Dhakka book fair
• Dhakka book fair
• Dhamma
• Dhamma
• dharma
• dharma
• Dhauli
• Dhauli
• Dice Memorandum
• Dice Memorandum
• disclosure
• disclosure
• disconnect (in World Bank)
• disconnect (in World Bank)
• displacement
• displacement
• Dominican Republic
• Dominican Republic
• Donor's Agreement (ADF)
• Donor's Agreement (ADF)
• Donor's Report Eighth ADF Replenishment
• Donor's Report Eighth ADF Replenishment
• economic globalization
• economic globalization
• Ecuador
• Ecuador
• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
• Eighth Replenishment (ADF)
• Eighth Replenishment (ADF)
• Elf Aquitaine
• Elf Aquitaine
• Enron Cuiba Brazil-Bolivia pipeline
• Enron Cuiba Brazil-Bolivia pipeline
• Enron Dabhol gas-fired power plant (India)
• Enron Dabhol gas-fired power plant (India)
• environmental action plan
• environmental action plan
• environmental assessments EAs
• environmental assessments EAs
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
• Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
• environmental justice
• environmental justice
• environmentally sustainable poverty alleviation
• environmentally sustainable poverty alleviation
• environmental organizations
• environmental organizations
• environmental policy
• environmental policy
• environmental sector
• environmental sector
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• EURODAD
• EURODAD
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• Ex-Im Bank
• Ex-Im Bank
• Executive Directors (ADB)
• Executive Directors (ADB)
• export-led growth
• export-led growth
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• extractive industries
• extractive industries
• ExxonMobil
• ExxonMobil
• fiduciary duty
• fiduciary duty
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Task Force (World Bank)
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Task Force (World Bank)
• Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• fiscal space
• fiscal space
• Food Crop Sector Program Loan (Indonesia)
• Food Crop Sector Program Loan (Indonesia)
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign direct investment
• foreign direct investment
• forensic audits
• forensic audits
• forestry
• forestry
• fraud
• fraud
• free market
• free market
• Freeport Mcmoran
• Freeport Mcmoran
• frugality
• frugality
• Georgia (Republic of)
• Georgia (Republic of)
• German Federal Audit Office
• German Federal Audit Office
• German Hermes Guarantee
• German Hermes Guarantee
• global civil society
• global civil society
• global ethic
• global ethic
• globalization
• globalization
• global market economy
• global market economy
• gold mining
• gold mining
• good governance
• good governance
• good practice
• good practice
• governance
• governance
• grassroots
• grassroots
• GTE Corp
• GTE Corp
• Guido Penso
• Guido Penso
• Guyana
• Guyana
• Hair report
• Hair report
• harmonization (of policies)
• harmonization (of policies)
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Hermes Guarantee
• Hermes Guarantee
• HIV/AIDS programs
• HIV/AIDS programs
• Human Resources Strategy (ADB)
• Human Resources Strategy (ADB)
• idealism
• idealism
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• incentives
• incentives
• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• India
• India
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• Inspection Panel (ADB)
• Inspection Panel (ADB)
• institutional amnesia
• institutional amnesia
• institutional incentives
• institutional incentives
• institutional optimism
• institutional optimism
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• internal culture
• internal culture
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Netherlands Group (ING)
• International Netherlands Group (ING)
• Iran
• Iran
• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• Jakarta
• Jakarta
• Jakarta Declaration
• Jakarta Declaration
• James Wolfensohn
• James Wolfensohn
• Jane Loos
• Jane Loos
• Jannik Linkbaek
• Jannik Linkbaek
• Japan
• Japan
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
• Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry Investment Insurance (MITI)
• Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry Investment Insurance (MITI)
• Java
• Java
• Jay Hair
• Jay Hair
• Jean-Michel Severino
• Jean-Michel Severino
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jeffrey Winters
• job creation
• job creation
• justice
• justice
• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• Kamchatka
• Kamchatka
• Kandahar
• Kandahar
• Karcher Martin
• Karcher Martin
• Kautilya
• Kautilya
• Kumagi Gumi comany (Japan)
• Kumagi Gumi comany (Japan)
• Kyrgyzstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• Laos
• Laos
• large infrastructure
• large infrastructure
• leakage (corruption)
• leakage (corruption)
• Lesotho
• Lesotho
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project
• leverage
• leverage
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Lloyds Bank of London
• Lloyds Bank of London
• loan adminisration
• loan adminisration
• logging
• logging
• London Dumping Convention
• London Dumping Convention
• Loos memorandum
• Loos memorandum
• luxury hotels (IFC financing of)
• luxury hotels (IFC financing of)
• Maastricht Treaty
• Maastricht Treaty
• Machiavelli
• Machiavelli
• Maheswar dam (India)
• Maheswar dam (India)
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming participation
• mainstreaming participation
• Manuel Castells
• Manuel Castells
• Martin Karcher
• Martin Karcher
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• Meltzer Commission
• Meltzer Commission
• Mexico
• Mexico
• micro-credit
• micro-credit
• mining
• mining
• Miraflores Lima Peru
• Miraflores Lima Peru
• monitoring
• monitoring
• Morse Commission
• Morse Commission
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Narmada dam
• Narmada dam
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• National Environmental Act (Sri Lanka)
• National Environmental Act (Sri Lanka)
• negligence
• negligence
• Nepal
• Nepal
• networks (World Bank)
• networks (World Bank)
• new mercantilism
• new mercantilism
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-project lending
• non-project lending
• nonviolence
• nonviolence
• Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan)
• Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan)
• nuclear power
• nuclear power
• OECD anti-bribery convention
• OECD anti-bribery convention
• OECD Common Approaches on Environment and Export Credits
• OECD Common Approaches on Environment and Export Credits
• OECD DAC Guidelines on Aid and the Environment
• OECD DAC Guidelines on Aid and the Environment
• OECD DAC Guidelines Strategies for Sustainable Development
• OECD DAC Guidelines Strategies for Sustainable Development
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• OECD Export Credit Group
• OECD Export Credit Group
• OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees
• OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees
• OeKB (Austria)
• OeKB (Austria)
• official export credit agencies
• official export credit agencies
• Ok Tedi mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Ok Tedi mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Omai Gold Mine (Guyana)
• Omai Gold Mine (Guyana)
• Operational Directives (World Bank)
• Operational Directives (World Bank)
• Operational Policy on Corruption (ADB)
• Operational Policy on Corruption (ADB)
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation OPIC (U.S.)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation OPIC (U.S.)
• oversight
• oversight
• Paiton II power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton II power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton I power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton I power plant (Indonesia)
• Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Pangue dam (Chile)
• Pangue dam (Chile)
• Panguna copper mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Panguna copper mine (Papua New Guinea)
• paper and pulp plants
• paper and pulp plants
• Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea
• Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (Sri Lanka)
• Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (Sri Lanka)
• personnel policy
• personnel policy
• Petronas
• Petronas
• political risk
• political risk
• political risk insurance
• political risk insurance
• poverty alleviation
• poverty alleviation
• poverty assessments
• poverty assessments
• Poverty Reduction Handbook (World Bank)
• Poverty Reduction Handbook (World Bank)
• power generating industry
• power generating industry
• pressure to lend
• pressure to lend
• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
• Prime Minister's Office (Sri Lanka)
• Prime Minister's Office (Sri Lanka)
• private sector capital flows
• private sector capital flows
• private sector investment
• private sector investment
• private sector operations
• private sector operations
• Program of Targeted Interventions (World Bank)
• Program of Targeted Interventions (World Bank)
• Project Completion Reports (ADB)
• Project Completion Reports (ADB)
• Project Performance Audit Reports (ADB)
• Project Performance Audit Reports (ADB)
• project sustainability
• project sustainability
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• protected species
• protected species
• protected species act
• protected species act
• prudence
• prudence
• public health programs
• public health programs
• public participation
• public participation
• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Rabindranath Tagore
• race to the bottom
• race to the bottom
• realism
• realism
• realpolitik
• realpolitik
• record keeping
• record keeping
• Regina Gregory
• Regina Gregory
• religious fundamentalism
• religious fundamentalism
• religious tolerance
• religious tolerance
• reputational risk
• reputational risk
• resettlement
• resettlement
• resettlement plan
• resettlement plan
• responsibility for the world
• responsibility for the world
• restraint
• restraint
• results management
• results management
• reverence for life
• reverence for life
• Richard Lugar
• Richard Lugar
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Tinto Zinc
• Rio Tinto Zinc
• risk management
• risk management
• Road Development Agency (Sri Lanka)
• Road Development Agency (Sri Lanka)
• Road Improvement Project (Sri Lanka)
• Road Improvement Project (Sri Lanka)
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Romania
• Romania
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Russia
• Russia
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• SACE (Italy)
• SACE (Italy)
• Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project (Thailand)
• Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project (Thailand)
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• self-control
• self-control
• self-organizing politics
• self-organizing politics
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)
• Severino Jean Michel
• Severino Jean Michel
• Shannon Lawrence
• Shannon Lawrence
• short-term trade finance
• short-term trade finance
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• social sector
• social sector
• Southern Transport Development Project (Sri Lanka)
• Southern Transport Development Project (Sri Lanka)
• Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka
• Sri Lankan Constitution
• Sri Lankan Constitution
• Stepanie Fried
• Stepanie Fried
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Suharto
• Suharto
• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• sustainability
• sustainability
• systematic corruption
• systematic corruption
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• technical assistance projects
• technical assistance projects
• Thailand
• Thailand
• Thai Pollution Control Board
• Thai Pollution Control Board
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• Third Local Roads Project (Indonesia)
• Third Local Roads Project (Indonesia)
• Thornburgh Report (World Bank INT)
• Thornburgh Report (World Bank INT)
• Thornburgh Richard
• Thornburgh Richard
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• tolerance
• tolerance
• top-down
• top-down
• Toynbee Arnold
• Toynbee Arnold
• trade finance
• trade finance
• transcendence
• transcendence
• transparency
• transparency
• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• Transparency International Corruption Index
• Transparency International Corruption Index
• Treasury Department U.S.
• Treasury Department U.S.
• Turkey
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Turkmenistan
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.S. AID (see also Agency for International Development AID)
• U.S. AID (see also Agency for International Development AID)
• U.S. Congressional International Financial Institution Advisory Committee (Meltzer Commision)
• U.S. Congressional International Financial Institution Advisory Committee (Meltzer Commision)
• U.S. Executive Director (ADB)
• U.S. Executive Director (ADB)
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• U.S. Treasury Department
• U.S. Treasury Department
• UNDP
• UNDP
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations
• United Nations
• United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
• United Nations Convention on Biodiversity
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• Uruguay
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vaclav Havel
• Vaclav Havel
• Walawe Irrigation Improvement Project (Sri Lanka)
• Walawe Irrigation Improvement Project (Sri Lanka)
• Wall Street Journal
• Wall Street Journal
• Walmart
• Walmart
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans Willi
• Wapenhans Willi
• Weber Max
• Weber Max
• Wen Jiabao
• Wen Jiabao
• West Papua
• West Papua
• Wolfensohn James
• Wolfensohn James
• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• Zambia
• Zambia
• zero tolerance
• zero tolerance

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