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• The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  This was the lead article in the "Special Issue: Environmental Law and Policy in Developing Countries" of the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Ecology Law...

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• Response to Jerome Levinson [former Chief Counsel, Inter-American Development Bank}

  Response to Jerome Levinson [former Chief Counsel, Inter-American Development Bank}

  I agree with Jerome Levinson that, in theory, there exists a structural hierarchy of accountability [in multilateral development banks]. However, I disagree with the notion that th...

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• Greenspeak

  Greenspeak

  The World Bank is doing its best to present itself as a born-again friend of the earth. Bruce Rich separates fact from fancy.

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• 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...

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• 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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• A Flight From Sustainability

  A Flight From Sustainability

  World Bank efforts to weaken environmental and social safeguard policies are provoking international concern....The Bank will only remain relevant by refocusing on the environmenta...

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• access to information
• access to information
• accountability
• accountability
• accounting
• accounting
• Acres International
• Acres International
• African Development Bank
• African Development Bank
• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• agricultural settlement
• agricultural settlement
• agriculture
• agriculture
• agro-ecological zoning
• agro-ecological zoning
• Alto Turi Settlement project
• Alto Turi Settlement project
• Amazon forest
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• Andrew Dice
• Andrew Dice
• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
• Annual World Bank-IMF Meeting
• Anti-Corruption Unit (World Bank)
• Anti-Corruption Unit (World Bank)
• archives (World Bank)
• archives (World Bank)
• Argentina
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• Articles of Agreement (MDBs)
• Articles of Agreement (MDBs)
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
• Asia Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN)
• Baker plan (debt crisis)
• Baker plan (debt crisis)
• Bangladesh
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• Banking on the Biosphere
• Banking on the Biosphere
• banking sector
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• Barber Conable
• Barber Conable
• biological deficit financing
• biological deficit financing
• biological reserves
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• Board of Governors (World Bank)
• Board of Governors (World Bank)
• Borneo
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• Botswana
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• Brady plan (debt crisis)
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• Brasilia
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• bribery
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• Brundtland Commission
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• Cameroon
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• Carole Brookins
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• Chihuahua
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• China
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• Clausen A.W. "Tom"
• Clausen A.W. "Tom"
• clientitis
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• CO2 emissions
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• coal power plants
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• coffee
• coffee
• Colombia
• Colombia
• Committee of International Development Institutions on the Environment (CIDIE)
• Committee of International Development Institutions on the Environment (CIDIE)
• Conable Barber
• Conable Barber
• conditionality (for loans)
• conditionality (for loans)
• confidentiality
• confidentiality
• Congressional hearings
• Congressional hearings
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• conservation
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• consultation
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• contradictions World Bank
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• Costa Rica
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• Country Directors (World Bank)
• Country Directors (World Bank)
• Country Economic Memoranda (World Bank)
• Country Economic Memoranda (World Bank)
• Country Program Papers (World Bank)
• Country Program Papers (World Bank)
• country relationship
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• croplands
• croplands
• culture of corruption
• culture of corruption
• culture of loan approval
• culture of loan approval
• dams (see also large dams)
• dams (see also large dams)
• DDT
• DDT
• debarment
• debarment
• debt
• debt
• debt crisis
• debt crisis
• debt forgiveness
• debt forgiveness
• debt relief
• debt relief
• deforestation
• deforestation
• Department of Institutional Integrity INT (World Bank)
• Department of Institutional Integrity INT (World Bank)
• desertification
• desertification
• Developent Committee World Bank-IMF
• Developent Committee World Bank-IMF
• developing nations
• developing nations
• development
• development
• Dice Memorandum
• Dice Memorandum
• disclosure
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• discounted rates of return
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• displacement
• displacement
• Donald Regan
• Donald Regan
• Durango
• Durango
• ecological debt
• ecological debt
• end-use energy efficiency
• end-use energy efficiency
• energy alternatives
• energy alternatives
• energy conservation
• energy conservation
• energy efficiency
• energy efficiency
• energy finance
• energy finance
• environmental action plan
• environmental action plan
• Environmental Advisor (World Bank)
• Environmental Advisor (World Bank)
• environmental and social safeguards
• environmental and social safeguards
• environmental assessments EAs
• environmental assessments EAs
• environmental crisis
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• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Defense Fund
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• environmental impacts
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• environmental policies (World Bank)
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• Environmental Policy Institute
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• environmental programs
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• environmental staff
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• environmental staff (World Bank)
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• environmental sustainabililty
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• environment and natural Resources
• environment and natural Resources
• Environment Department World Bank
• Environment Department World Bank
• erosion
• erosion
• Executive Branch (U.S.)
• Executive Branch (U.S.)
• Executive Directors (of MDBs)
• Executive Directors (of MDBs)
• Executive Order 12114 (President Carter)
• Executive Order 12114 (President Carter)
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• export earnings
• export earnings
• externalities (economic)
• externalities (economic)
• fertilizer industry
• fertilizer industry
• fiduciary duty
• fiduciary duty
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Task Force (World Bank)
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Task Force (World Bank)
• Financial Sector Development Project (Indonesia)
• Financial Sector Development Project (Indonesia)
• fisheries
• fisheries
• Fishery Sector Policy (World Bank)
• Fishery Sector Policy (World Bank)
• forced resettlement
• forced resettlement
• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
• forcible resettlement policy World Bank
• foreign assistance
• foreign assistance
• Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (U.S.)
• Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (U.S.)
• forestry
• forestry
• forestry lending
• forestry lending
• forests
• forests
• Founex Meeting (United Nations)
• Founex Meeting (United Nations)
• Founex Report
• Founex Report
• Germany
• Germany
• Gezira (Sudan)
• Gezira (Sudan)
• Glenn R. Simpson
• Glenn R. Simpson
• global green fund (for World Bank)
• global green fund (for World Bank)
• governance
• governance
• Governors (of MDBs)
• Governors (of MDBs)
• grasslands
• grasslands
• grassroots
• grassroots
• green fund (for World Bank)
• green fund (for World Bank)
• greenhouse gas emission source
• greenhouse gas emission source
• Green Revolution
• Green Revolution
• greenspeak
• greenspeak
• groundnuts
• groundnuts
• Guinea
• Guinea
• Gujarat
• Gujarat
• Guyana
• Guyana
• hard loans (MDBs)
• hard loans (MDBs)
• Harsud (India)
• Harsud (India)
• herbicides
• herbicides
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• House Banking Committee Subcommittee on International Development Institutions
• House Banking Committee Subcommittee on International Development Institutions
• House Foreign Affairs Committee (U.S.)
• House Foreign Affairs Committee (U.S.)
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• human rights
• human rights
• hydroelectric projects
• hydroelectric projects
• Ibrahim Shihata
• Ibrahim Shihata
• India
• India
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• Indian reserves
• Indian reserves
• indigenous peoples
• indigenous peoples
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• Indonesia Country Assistance Note (OED)
• Indonesia Country Assistance Note (OED)
• infant mortality
• infant mortality
• influenza
• influenza
• institutional culture
• institutional culture
• institutional schizophrenia
• institutional schizophrenia
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
• 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 Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• irrigation projects
• irrigation projects
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• Jakarta
• Jakarta
• James Scheuer
• James Scheuer
• James Wolfensohn
• James Wolfensohn
• Jane Loos
• Jane Loos
• Japan
• Japan
• Java
• Java
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jerome Levinson
• Jerome Levinson
• Jim Yong Kim
• Jim Yong Kim
• Jose Lutzenberger
• Jose Lutzenberger
• jungle colonization
• jungle colonization
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Lahmeyer International
• Lahmeyer International
• land acquisition
• land acquisition
• large dams
• large dams
• leakage (corruption)
• leakage (corruption)
• Legal Department World Bank
• Legal Department World Bank
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project
• lindane
• lindane
• livestock ranching
• livestock ranching
• loan approval culture
• loan approval culture
• logging
• logging
• Loos memorandum
• Loos memorandum
• macro-irrationality
• macro-irrationality
• Madagascar
• Madagascar
• malaria
• malaria
• malathion
• malathion
• Malawi
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Malaysia
• Manish Babna
• Manish Babna
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso
• MDB Campaign
• MDB Campaign
• measles
• measles
• Mexico
• Mexico
• Mexico Forestry Development Project
• Mexico Forestry Development Project
• micro-rationality
• micro-rationality
• mining
• mining
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• Narmada Sagar project
• Narmada Sagar project
• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
• national parks
• national parks
• national TFAP plans
• national TFAP plans
• National Wildlife Federation
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• natural rubber
• natural rubber
• neoclassical economic theory
• neoclassical economic theory
• Nepal
• Nepal
• New Delhi
• New Delhi
• New York Declaration of Environmental Policies and Procedures
• New York Declaration of Environmental Policies and Procedures
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Nobel Prize
• Nobel Prize
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs (World Bank)
• Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs (World Bank)
• Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
• Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• organochlorines
• organochlorines
• oustees
• oustees
• overgrazing
• overgrazing
• Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Pat Auferheide
• Pat Auferheide
• Patrick Coady
• Patrick Coady
• Peru
• Peru
• perverse incentives
• perverse incentives
• pesticide resistance
• pesticide resistance
• pesticides
• pesticides
• pesticide treadmill
• pesticide treadmill
• Philippines
• Philippines
• Poland
• Poland
• political question
• political question
• Polonoroeste project
• Polonoroeste project
• poverty
• poverty
• power
• power
• pressure to lend
• pressure to lend
• Prince Charles
• Prince Charles
• private sector investment
• private sector investment
• procurement
• procurement
• project finance
• project finance
• Project Performance Audits (World Bank)
• Project Performance Audits (World Bank)
• project quality
• project quality
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• public debate
• public debate
• public participation
• public participation
• pulp mills
• pulp mills
• race to the bottom
• race to the bottom
• Rainforest Memorandum
• Rainforest Memorandum
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi
• reorganization (of World Bank)
• reorganization (of World Bank)
• research
• research
• resettlement
• resettlement
• resettlement plan
• resettlement plan
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
• resettlement programs
• resettlement programs
• resettlement projects
• resettlement projects
• Richard Lugar
• Richard Lugar
• Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
• Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
• risk assessment
• risk assessment
• roadbuilding
• roadbuilding
• Robert Kasten Senator
• Robert Kasten Senator
• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Rondônia
• Rondônia
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
• rubber tappers
• rubber tappers
• rural development
• rural development
• Russia
• Russia
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
• Rwanda
• Rwanda
• Safeguard Policies
• Safeguard Policies
• Safeguard Policies (dilution of)
• Safeguard Policies (dilution of)
• Sanctions Committee (World Bank)
• Sanctions Committee (World Bank)
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Schneider Electric S.A.
• Schneider Electric S.A.
• Sector Policy Papers (World Bank)
• Sector Policy Papers (World Bank)
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
• Severino Jean Michel
• Severino Jean Michel
• Sierra Club
• Sierra Club
• social impacts
• social impacts
• social question
• social question
• soft loans (MDBs)
• soft loans (MDBs)
• soil conservation
• soil conservation
• staff
• staff
• staff incentives
• staff incentives
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Subernarekha project
• Subernarekha project
• Sudan
• Sudan
• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• sustainability
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• sustainable forest management
• sustainable forest management
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable forestry
• sustainable logging
• sustainable logging
• Swaziland
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Tanzania
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• Task Managers (World Bank)
• technology transfer
• technology transfer
• timber production
• timber production
• tobacco projects
• tobacco projects
• Trans-Amazonian highway (Brazil)
• Trans-Amazonian highway (Brazil)
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• transparency
• transparency
• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• Transparency International Corruption Index
• Transparency International Corruption Index
• transportation
• transportation
• Treasury Department U.S.
• Treasury Department U.S.
• tropical deforestation
• tropical deforestation
• tropical forest biome
• tropical forest biome
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• tropical moist forests
• tropical moist forests
• 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
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• U.S. Congress Ominibus Appropriations Act 2015
• U.S. Congress Ominibus Appropriations Act 2015
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
• U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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• U.S. Treasury Department
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• underdevelopment
• underdevelopment
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Wall Street Journal
• Wall Street Journal
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans Willi
• Wapenhans Willi
• water pollution
• water pollution
• water projects
• water projects
• Wesberry James
• Wesberry James
• Wolfensohn James
• Wolfensohn James
• wood-curing (tobacco)
• wood-curing (tobacco)
• Working Group on Multilateral Assistance (U.S.)
• Working Group on Multilateral Assistance (U.S.)
• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Articles of Agreement
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• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank charter
• World Bank charter
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Health Organization
• World Health Organization
• World Rainforest Movement
• World Rainforest Movement
• World Resources Institute
• World Resources Institute
• World Wildlife Fund
• World Wildlife Fund
• WWF
• WWF
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• Zaire

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