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China's Blank Checks for Unsustainable Development

China's Blank Checks for Unsustainable Development

China is becoming the biggest international public financial player in poorer countries, dwarfing the largest development agencies such as the World Bank. Unfortunately, the econom...
Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

This testimony examines the institutional issues concerning massive corruption in World Bank lending over the past thirteen years through 2004, as documented in internal World Bank...
Tax Evasion That Harms the Global Commons: No Problem If It's Legal?

Tax Evasion That Harms the Global Commons: No Problem If It's Legal?

“Dirty money” flows totalling over $1.1 trillion a year support human trafficking, global drug mafias, terrorist networks, and arms smuggling, as well as fueling international wild...
Megadams and Economic Folly

Megadams and Economic Folly

A recent review of the economic costs and benefits of 245 large dams by four Oxford professors....found “overwhelming evidence” that the real costs of large dam projects, are for t...
World's Coal Lender of Last Resort Doubles Down as Warming Worsens

World's Coal Lender of Last Resort Doubles Down as Warming Worsens

In the midst of accelerating global warming, tens of billions of dollars continue to flow from private and public international banks into financing new coal fired plants, especial...

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China's Blank Checks for Unsustainable Development

China's Blank Checks for Unsustainable Development

Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

Prepared Statement of Bruce M. Rich, Senate Foreign Relations Committe, Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks, Chaired by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R), Indiana, Part I, May 13, 2004

Tax Evasion That Harms the Global Commons: No Problem If It's Legal?

Tax Evasion That Harms the Global Commons: No Problem If It's Legal?

Megadams and Economic Folly

Megadams and Economic Folly

World's Coal Lender of Last Resort Doubles Down as Warming Worsens

World's Coal Lender of Last Resort Doubles Down as Warming Worsens

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