World Bank

Derrick, part of the Chad Cameroon pipeline, financed, among others, by EIB and World Bank (photo: Martin Zint)

Introduction


Probably the best-known financial institution worldwide is the World Bank. But what are we talking about when we say World Bank: IBRD? IFC? ICSID? Read more about who actually makes up the World Bank and several further aspects of it.

World Bank - World Bank Group and the Extractives Sector

- October 30, 2008 - The Extractive Industries Review (EIR) did an evaluation of the Bank’s lending to the extractive industries and its potential contribution to sustainable development and poverty alleviation. It made a range of recommendations to the World Bank to improve its policy. more»

World Bank - Projects and Use of Complaints Mechanisms

- October 30, 2008 - In a range of World Bank-financed projects in the extractive industries sector, civil society has used the complaints mechanisms to assess and mitigate environmental or social problems, with mixed success. Read about the examples of the Marlin and the Yanacocha mine, as well as the Karachaganak oil field. more»

World Bank - Forests

- October 30, 2008 - Greenpeace has been very critical about the World Bank’s role in the forest sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more about the conflict and some effect of it. more»
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