Index for 2011

OECD fails to agree on revised Common Approaches on export credit & the environment
Outrage at UK's $1bn export credit loan deal with Brazil oil giant
Export credit guarantees: The real cause of developing country debt
ECA Watch submission to the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Business (PDF)
UK Ministers accused of fiddling aid figures with 'made-up money'
Berne Union voices concerns about world trade
Boeing sees no aircraft financing gap in 2012
The Brookings Institution - Population Displacement and Export Credit
CEDHA outlines violations of Equator Principles of mining project under ECA consideration (PDF)
Nigeria's NEXIM Bank Disburses N70bn, $322m
Santos Obtains $1.2 Billion in Debt Financing to Help Fund LNG Projects
US business worries Eximbank may hit credit ceiling

ECA Watch submissions to 14 Nov OECD ECWG meeting
US air carriers launch lawsuit against US Ex-Im over Boeing subsidies
Eurodad report on ECAs and debt to be released 6 December
Indian Export-Import Bank Act increases capital five fold
Friends of the Earth Japan petitions against nuclear exports
Ukraine sets up export credit agency
Listening project documents the impacts of ECA supported Exxon LNG project in PNG
Prague Club meets in Oman
Indonesian Eximbank lending goes mostly to palm oil
Portuguese short-term export credit ruled a breach of EU competition law
China Ex-Im in scandal over Guyanese airport contract
UK ECA ECGD is rebranded as UK Export Finance

Annual report of UN independent expert on debt and human rights focuses on export credit agencies
Europe Gives Export Credits to Chinese Airbus
NGOs Question U.S. Ex-Im Bank $1.5 billion Nigerian Power Deal
Wells Fargo Bank loan officer in large ECA fraud case to plead guilty
Wall Street Analysts Warn of Export-credit Satellite Financing Bubble
UK exporters report trouble accessing export credit
Johan Schrijver of Atradius elected President of Berne Union
Four ECA financed Dutch corvettes for Vietnam
OECD to negotiate new Common Approaches on ECAs and environment 14 November 2011
India's Export Credit Guarantee Corporation imposes stringent rules for exports to Syria & Greece
UK government fails to keep green pledge
Britain demands Egypt repay millions lent for arms deals
Commonwealth summit hears of export, credit guarantees to help poor nations

U.S. Export-Import Bank breaks record for loan authorizations
Investment and trade insurers poised to resume Libyan activity once fighting eases
September 2011 version of the OECD administered Arrangement on Official Export Credit now available
FoE Japan petition to end Japanese government promotion of nuclear exports
Angry landowner attacks expat staff at ECA financed LNG project in PNG - project work halted

Australia: EFIC's new Environment and Social Policy brings welcome changes
Amnesty expresses disappointment at lack of human rights policy in Common Approaches
Minutes of the proceedings of the 527th meeting of the EU Export Credits Group
US, Europe and Canada in civil aviation market conflict
Russia readies launch of Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agency
Ghana to join African Trade Insurance Agency
China Pledges Measures To Level Competitive Playing Field For US, Chinese Firms
U.N. Committee expresses deep concern over rights violations at Ilisu dam in Turkey

US Ex-Im Bank adopts Equator Principles & finances largest ever carbon emitting project
European Parliament demands that Export Credit Agencies open up
In search of a level playing field: the 2011 Aircraft Sector Understanding
Huawei's $30 Billion Chinese ECA Credit Opens Doors in Brazil, Mexico
U.S. Boosts Farm-Export-Credit Assistance by $2.7 Billion
Time to end the underwriting of unethical business abroad
World Bank to limit funding for coal-fired power stations
WTO trade negotiations over export credits are at an impasse

BP violating human rights rules in ECA supported project, says UK government
EC opens in-depth investigations into short‑term export-credit support at Ducroire and SACE BT
EC approves extension of Danish short-term export credit scheme
Campaigners dressed as maids demand governments clean up their exports
OECD wants creation of a maximum 12-year term for aircraft export credit support
US Government studies reorganization of trade agencies to promote competitiveness
J.P. Morgan signs agreement with SINOSURE
Arab Fund Lends Sudan $360 Million for New Airport, Two Dams

UK export push 'could create toxic debt'
Commission opens in-depth investigations into short‑term credits of Belgian & Italian ECAs
Greater export credit agency accountability needed – but how?
Will U.S. Taxpayers Be Asked to Finance Environmental Devastation in South Africa?
EU Finds China Gives Aid to telecommunication equipment makers
China study finds EU subsidized telecom firms
Government and Atradius Dutch State Business launch SME export accelerator (Dutch text)
UBA, HSBC Sign $100m OECD ECA backed loan deal

Jubilee Debt report finds 96% of Third World debt to UK comes from failed exports
Aircraft financing to emerge from the gloom in 2011
Chinese export credits push international competition and controversy
UK Trade Minister Urged to Expand Export Support to Green Firms
Australia's Ferra lands exclusive military contract with ECA help
Argentina to repay Paris Club defaulted debt
FERN Briefing on ECAs and Climate Change
Swedish ECA dividend helps reduce government deficit

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