Content Tagged: environmental action plan

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

• The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.

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• Aarhus Convention
• Aarhus Convention
• access to information
• access to information
• accountability
• accountability
• Aceh
• Aceh
• Adam Smith
• Adam Smith
• Afghanistan
• Afghanistan
• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• Aginskoe gold mine (Kamchatka)
• agro-ecological zoning
• agro-ecological zoning
• Albert Schweitzer
• Albert Schweitzer
• Algeria
• Algeria
• Amartya Sen
• Amartya Sen
• 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)
• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
• Argentina
• Argentina
• Aristotle
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• arms exports
• arms exports
• Arnold Toynbee
• Arnold Toynbee
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arun III dam
• Arun III dam
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
• Australia Export Finance and Investment Corporation (EFIC)
• Australia Export Finance and Investment Corporation (EFIC)
• Azerbaijan
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• Baker plan (debt crisis)
• Baker plan (debt crisis)
• Balfour Beatty
• Balfour Beatty
• Bangladesh
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• Barber Conable
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• beneficence
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• Berne Declaration
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• Bio Bio River
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• Board of Governors (World Bank)
• Board of Governors (World Bank)
• Bosnia
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• Botswana
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• Brady plan (debt crisis)
• Brady plan (debt crisis)
• Brasilia
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• Brazil
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• Brazil nuts
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• Brundtland Commission
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• Cameroon
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• CAO
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• capital-intensive projects
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• carve out (OECD ECA)
• carve out (OECD ECA)
• 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)
• China
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• civil society
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• coal power plants
• coal power plants
• Coca Cola bottling plants
• Coca Cola bottling plants
• COFACE
• COFACE
• Colombia
• Colombia
• Common Approaches on Environment (OECD)
• Common Approaches on Environment (OECD)
• Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (IFC)
• Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (IFC)
• conditionality (for loans)
• conditionality (for loans)
• conservation
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• consultation
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• contradictions World Bank
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• corporate welfare
• corporate welfare
• corruption
• corruption
• Country Assistance Strategies (World Bank)
• Country Assistance Strategies (World Bank)
• Country Directors (World Bank)
• Country Directors (World Bank)
• debt crisis
• debt crisis
• debt forgiveness
• debt forgiveness
• debt relief
• debt relief
• deforestation
• deforestation
• Developent Committee World Bank-IMF
• Developent Committee World Bank-IMF
• Devesh Kapur
• Devesh Kapur
• Dhakka book fair
• Dhakka book fair
• Dhamma
• Dhamma
• dharma
• dharma
• Dhauli
• Dhauli
• Dice Memorandum
• Dice Memorandum
• disclosure
• disclosure
• economic globalization
• economic globalization
• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
• EFIC Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Australia)
• Elf Aquitaine
• Elf Aquitaine
• end-use energy efficiency
• end-use energy efficiency
• energy alternatives
• energy alternatives
• energy conservation
• energy conservation
• 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 policies (World Bank)
• environmental policies (World Bank)
• environmental programs
• environmental programs
• environmental projects
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• environmental reforms
• environmental reforms
• environmental staff
• environmental staff
• environmental staff (World Bank)
• environmental staff (World Bank)
• environment and natural Resources
• environment and natural Resources
• Environment Department World Bank
• Environment Department World Bank
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• EURODAD
• EURODAD
• Ex-Im Bank
• Ex-Im Bank
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• ExxonMobil
• ExxonMobil
• 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
• forced resettlement
• forced resettlement
• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• forestry
• forestry
• free market
• free market
• Freeport Mcmoran
• Freeport Mcmoran
• frugality
• frugality
• German Federal Audit Office
• German Federal Audit Office
• German Hermes Guarantee
• German Hermes Guarantee
• Germany
• Germany
• global civil society
• global civil society
• global ethic
• global ethic
• globalization
• globalization
• global market economy
• global market economy
• good practice
• good practice
• governance
• governance
• grassroots
• grassroots
• greenspeak
• greenspeak
• Guinea
• Guinea
• Gujarat
• Gujarat
• Guyana
• Guyana
• Hair report
• Hair report
• Harsud (India)
• Harsud (India)
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Hermes Guarantee
• Hermes Guarantee
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• idealism
• idealism
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• India
• India
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• Indian reserves
• Indian reserves
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• institutional amnesia
• institutional amnesia
• institutional optimism
• institutional optimism
• institutional schizophrenia
• institutional schizophrenia
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• 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
• Iran
• Iran
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• Jakarta Declaration
• Jakarta Declaration
• James Scheuer
• James Scheuer
• 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
• justice
• justice
• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• Kamchatka
• Kamchatka
• Kandahar
• Kandahar
• Karcher Martin
• Karcher Martin
• Kautilya
• Kautilya
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kyrgyzstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• large dams
• large dams
• Legal Department World Bank
• Legal Department World Bank
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• 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
• Madagascar
• Madagascar
• Maheswar dam (India)
• Maheswar dam (India)
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming participation
• mainstreaming participation
• Malaysia
• Malaysia
• Manuel Castells
• Manuel Castells
• Martin Karcher
• Martin Karcher
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• MDB Campaign
• MDB Campaign
• Mexico
• Mexico
• mining
• mining
• 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
• Narmada Sagar project
• Narmada Sagar project
• national TFAP plans
• national TFAP plans
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• natural rubber
• natural rubber
• Nepal
• Nepal
• networks (World Bank)
• networks (World Bank)
• New Delhi
• New Delhi
• new mercantilism
• new mercantilism
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-project lending
• non-project lending
• nonviolence
• nonviolence
• 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)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• 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
• oustees
• oustees
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation OPIC (U.S.)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation OPIC (U.S.)
• Paiton II power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton II power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton I power plant (Indonesia)
• Paiton I power plant (Indonesia)
• 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
• Pat Auferheide
• Pat Auferheide
• Patrick Coady
• Patrick Coady
• Peru
• Peru
• political risk
• political risk
• political risk insurance
• political risk insurance
• Polonoroeste project
• Polonoroeste project
• poverty assessments
• poverty assessments
• power generating industry
• power generating industry
• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
• Prince Charles
• Prince Charles
• private sector capital flows
• private sector capital flows
• private sector investment
• private sector investment
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• protected species
• protected species
• protected species act
• protected species act
• prudence
• prudence
• 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
• Rainforest Memorandum
• Rainforest Memorandum
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi
• realism
• realism
• realpolitik
• realpolitik
• religious fundamentalism
• religious fundamentalism
• religious tolerance
• religious tolerance
• reputational risk
• reputational risk
• research
• research
• resettlement plan
• resettlement plan
• resettlement projects
• resettlement projects
• responsibility for the world
• responsibility for the world
• restraint
• restraint
• reverence for life
• reverence for life
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Tinto Zinc
• Rio Tinto Zinc
• risk management
• risk management
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Romania
• Romania
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• rubber tappers
• rubber tappers
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Rwanda
• Rwanda
• SACE (Italy)
• SACE (Italy)
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• self-control
• self-control
• self-organizing politics
• self-organizing politics
• Severino Jean Michel
• Severino Jean Michel
• short-term trade finance
• short-term trade finance
• Sierra Club
• Sierra Club
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli (India)
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Subernarekha project
• Subernarekha project
• Suharto
• Suharto
• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• sustainability
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable logging
• sustainable logging
• Tanzania
• Tanzania
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• technical assistance projects
• technical assistance projects
• Thailand
• Thailand
• 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)
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• tolerance
• tolerance
• top-down
• top-down
• Toynbee Arnold
• Toynbee Arnold
• trade finance
• trade finance
• transcendence
• transcendence
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• transparency
• transparency
• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• tropical deforestation
• tropical deforestation
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• Turkey
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Turkmenistan
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• 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 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vaclav Havel
• Vaclav Havel
• 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 Articles of Agreement
• World Bank Articles of Agreement
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank charter
• World Bank charter
• 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 Rainforest Movement
• World Rainforest Movement
• World Resources Institute
• World Resources Institute
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Wildlife Fund
• World Wildlife Fund
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• WWF
• WWF
• Zaire
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zambia

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