Index for 2005

December 2005

  • How to start your own low cost airline - with ECA support
  • EBRD Caves in to Shell on Sakhalin
  • The OECD, the WTO and Agricultural Subsidies
  • Belgian ECA continues efforts to circumvent prohibition of Tanzania arms deal
  • How to start a low cost airline with ECA financial support
  • Bulgarian coal plant gets Hermes and Coface support
  • U.S. lifts export credit ban for Indonesian arms purchases
  • Scots demand control over aid budget share, is ECGD next?
  • Nauru's only air link grounded by U.S. Ex-Im Bank
  • Chinese ECA faces bad debts, poor risk assessments
  • EDC Global Capital Flows Report
  • What have dams got to do with peace? Conflict and the politics of infrastructure development
  • ECGD supports Filipino bridges to nowhere
  • New Secretary-General a major face-lift for OECD?

November 2005

  • Britain and Nigeria's half-hearted war on corruption
  • OECD Update
  • Sakhalin bribery offer
  • Indonesian navy buys Dutch ECA financed Corvettes
  • China offers US$900 M export credits to SCO
  • Coface to finance equipment for Indian dam Rs 450 crore (US$98.4 million)
  • Berne Union ECAs report 21% volume growth to US$788 billion
  • Russia signs US$200 million export credit deal with China's Sinosure
  • Large increase in Dutch ECA insured exports to Russia
  • Philippine Airlines to Buy ECA financed Airbus 320s
  • 40% of French ODA is largely ECA/commercial debt cancellation

October 2005

  • OECD Export Credit News
  • IMF Report: Officially Supported Export Credits in a Changing World
  • WRI report: Diverging Paths: What Future for ECAs in Development Finance?
  • Chinese ECA acquires U.S. bicycle manufacturer
  • Waste incineration and renewable energy incentives
  • Amnesty: ECA funded Chad Cameroon pipeline violates human rights
  • Nigerian ECA debt is the subject of Paris Club negotiations on Oct. 18, 2005
  • Russian banks to form ECA
  • ECGD continues to review decision to fund Shell for Sakhalin project
  • Philippines looking to buy guns from Poland with export credit support
  • Friends of the Earth France publishes Senate ECA Workshop report
  • EIB and EBRD accept WCD standards for hydro power carbon credits
  • Unicorn ranks ECAs on bribery

September 2005

  • Dams and Renewable Energy Incentives Update:
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  • Ex-Im Bank gives creditors a reprieve after Katrina
  • SEC Subpoenas Chicago Bridge On ECA funded Nigerian Work
  • Energy efficiency improvements at existing power plants are a more cost-effective way of increasing supply than building new plants
  • NGOs - effective because of public trust
  • EU and China Partnership on Climate Change includes ECAs
  • Connecting Nature, Power and Poverty FPIC for ECAs
  • NGOs issue statement condemning ECA debt write-off as aid
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  • OECD Watch report evaluates OECD MNC Guidelines 5 years after their revision [PDF]
  • Groundbreaking global warming lawsuit to proceed

August 2005

  • Banks supporting Chinese ECA risk indirect contravention of standards
  • Australian and South African ECAs support Zambian copper mine
  • Some ECA clients get untied credit while renewable energies don't
  • Measuring the opportunity cost of ECA capital - i.e. ECGD export credit subsidies
  • Belgian NGOs list recommendations for Ducroire [PDF]
  • US Export-Import Bank promotes new renewable energy incentives
  • Sakhalin cost overruns reduce Shell assets

July 2005

  • Sudan: Update on the Merowe/ Hamadab Dam Project
  • Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: Ongoing Damages, Inadequate Compensation
  • Building a Profitable Airline is Not Easy, But ECAs Help
  • Ducroire (Belgium) Support for Tanzanian Arms Factory Denied Again
  • NGOs mobilize to stop Ilisu Dam (Again!)
  • Talking Export Credits at the European Commission

June 2005

  • BTC Pipeline Update
  • Sakhalin II Update
  • Independent Expert Raises Concerns About Dam Standards
  • US ExIm Backs Brazilian Oil Platform
  • US ExIm Backs Environmental Exports: Plans to Refit Dams
  • Cloud of Concern Surrounds China's Nuclear Boom
  • Dabhol Settlement Receives Another Blow
  • Law Suit Filed on Cancelled Tanzanian Water Project
  • Brazilian Oil Firm Inks Deal with JBIC
  • Air Transport Given USD $7.3B ECA Credit in 2003
  • Turkish Delegates Ask EU to Monitor Ilisu Dam
  • Climate Change Suit Against OPIC and US ExIm Advances

May 2005

  • OECD to Revise Anti-Bribery Statement
  • Canada's ECA Continues to Withhold Key Environmental Information
  • Sakhalin II Update:
  • Fifty Campaign Groups Protest World Bank Failures on Controversial BTC Oil Pipeline
  • Trade Minister Demands Strengthening of OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
  • NGOs Gravely Concerned About Subsidies to Drinking Water Projects (PDF)
  • French Representative Challenged on Nam Theun 2
  • British Energy Giant Starts Filling Oil into BTC Pipeline
  • OECD Participants in the Arrangement on Export Credits Refuse Better Terms for Local Costs
  • ECA Watch Launches Analysis of 2002 OECD ECA Data
  • NGOs Oppose Subsidies to Hydro as a Renewable Energy [PDF]

April 2005

  • Sakhalin Update:
  • Parliament May Launch Inquiry into French ECA COFACE
  • Greenpeace Disrupts Construction of JBIC-Supported Thai Coal Plant
  • Filipino Supreme Court Justice: Stop Paying Nuke Plant Debt
  • Debt Relief Under Fire: "Not Proper Aid"
  • British MPs Hit Bribery Rule Weakening
  • BP Covered Up BTC Pipeline Flaw
  • BTC Pipeline in New Human Rights Storm
  • Finnish ECA Finnvera Ruled Illegally Secretive
  • World Bank Board Approves Nam Theun 2 Dam; Plan Could Backfire
  • Brazil Challenges the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits
  • Wealthy Nations to Extend Renewable Energy Financing Terms for Large Dams