Content Tagged: Hermes Guarantee

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• 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

• As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

  As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

  This article appeared in late 2013, and the World Bank Group has made progress in adopting some of the article's recommendations, namely commitments to end financing of coal power...

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• Exporting Destruction

  Exporting Destruction

  This is the story of how the Export Credit Agencies of major exporting coutries operated under a cloak of secrecy with a mandate to promote domestic businesses abroad at almost an...

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• France COFACE
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• German Federal Audit Office
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• Guyana
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• Heinrich Zimmer
• Heinrich Zimmer
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• Hermes Guarantee
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• HFC-23
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• HFC-23 offsets
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• HFC 22
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• Human Development Report (UNDP)
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• hydroelectric projects
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• idealism
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• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
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• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
• Ilisu dam (Turkey)
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• India
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• Indonesia
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• institutional amnesia
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• internaliization (of costs)
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• 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)
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• International Energy Agency (IEA)
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• International Maritime Organization
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• Iran
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• Jakarta Declaration
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• James Wolfensohn
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• 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
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• Jay Hair
• Jay Hair
• Jean-Michel Severino
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• Jeffrey Winters
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jim Yong Kim
• Jim Yong Kim
• justice
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• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• Kamchatka
• Kamchatka
• Kammen Daniel
• Kammen Daniel
• Kandahar
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• Karcher Martin
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• Kautilya
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• Kosovo
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• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
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• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kyoto Protocol
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• Kyrgyzstan
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• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• Lihir gold mine (Papua New Guinea)
• logging
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• London Dumping Convention
• London Dumping Convention
• Loos memorandum
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• low-carbon energy lending
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• luxury hotels (IFC financing of)
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• Maastricht Treaty
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• Maheswar dam (India)
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• mainstreaming
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• Manuel Castells
• Manuel Castells
• Martin Karcher
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• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• Medupi coal power plant
• Medupi coal power plant
• Mekong River Commission
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• Michael Wara
• Michael Wara
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• Millenium Development Goals
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• mining
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• monitoring
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• Morse Commission
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• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Narmada dam
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• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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• networks (World Bank)
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• Nigeria
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• OeKB (Austria)
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• Ok Tedi mine (Papua New Guinea)
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• Oxfam
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• Pangue dam (Chile)
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• paper and pulp plants
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• Papua New Guinea
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• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Peru
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• Plantar project (Brazil)
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• plastic feed stock
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• poverty
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• poverty assessments
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• power generating industry
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• premature mortality
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• Priciple 10 Rio Declaration
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• Pristina (Kosovo)
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• private sector capital flows
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• protected natural areas
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• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
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• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
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• Rabindranath Tagore
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• Robert McNamara
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• Severino Jean Michel
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• shadow price
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• Singrauli (India)
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• Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant
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• Smith Adam
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• South Africa
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• staff incentives
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• Stanford University
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• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
• Strategic Climate Fund
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• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• structural adjustment
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• structural adjustment loans
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• Suharto
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• Sumatra
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• supervision (World Bank)
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• sustainability
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• Tata Mundra coal plant
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• technical assistance projects
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• Thailand
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• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
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• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
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• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• Three Gorges Dam (China)
• tolerance
• tolerance
• top-down
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• Toynbee Arnold
• Toynbee Arnold
• tracking (CO2 emissions)
• tracking (CO2 emissions)
• trade finance
• trade finance
• transcendence
• transcendence
• transparency
• transparency
• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• trickle down aproach
• trickle down aproach
• Turkey
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Turkmenistan
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.K. Export Credits Guarantee Department
• U.S. Congress
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• U.S. Export-Import Bank
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• U.S. Government Accountability Office
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• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• Uganda
• Uganda
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• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• UNDP
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• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• universal energy access
• universal energy access
• University of California Berkeley
• University of California Berkeley
• Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vaclav Havel
• Vaclav Havel
• Viet Nam
• Viet Nam
• Wapenhans report
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• Wapenhans Willi
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• Weber Max
• Weber Max
• Wen Jiabao
• Wen Jiabao
• West Papua
• West Papua
• wind
• wind
• wind farms
• wind farms
• Wolfensohn James
• Wolfensohn James
• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
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• World Bank Carbon Funds
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• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Change Management Group
• World Bank Group (WBG)
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• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
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• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Commission on Dams
• World Commission on Dams
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Economic Forum
• World Economic Forum
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• WTO Carve Out (for ECAs)
• Zambia
• Zambia

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