(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 5 September 2016) At the end of 2016, the Dutch government will present a policy review of its export credit facility - as implemented by Atradius Dutch State Business (ADSB) - to the national Parliament. In conversations with multiple staff members of parliamentarians,...
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2016/09/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables, Transparency
(Jubilee Australia, Sydney, 9 September 2016) The Jubilee Australia Research Centre and Oxfam Australia have submitted comments on Efic Policies and Procedures for environmental and social review of transactions prior to a 2016 government review. They note that, although Efic’s approach to...
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2016/08/29
Country: Argentina
Issue: Debt, OECD
Argentina’s sovereign debt may be outperforming most of its emerging-market peers this year, but the OECD says the country is as risky as North Korea, Venezuela and Iran. The ranking is a remnant from the days when Argentina was still a pariah in international markets -- and it could soon...
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2016/08/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: OECD
(Nottingam University, Nottingham, 27 July 2016) This 35 page paper investigates the impact of the US Export-Import Bank on US exports particularly in the wake of international competition from foreign national export credit agencies (ECAs). We employ a gravity framework on a country-industry-...
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2016/06/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: OECD, World Trade Organization
(Financial Times, Tokyo, 14 June 2016) Japanese investment in Asean infrastructure is set to rise. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has changed its lending rules to allow higher risk investment through a special account... Power and transport infrastructure projects are...
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2016/05/31
Issue: OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 24 May 2016) Co-written by the NRDC, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Oil Change International (OCI), Kiko Network, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), and Friends of the Earth Japan,...
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2016/05/31
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: OECD
(BelTA, Minsk, 12 May 2016) Italian insurance companies will assist Belarus in improving its ratings in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country risk classification. The matter was discussed at the meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of...
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2016/05/31
Issue: OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Azernews, Baku, 16 May 2016) The Trans Adriatic Pipeline's (TAP) project financing continues to progress according to the schedule, said Ian Bradshaw, Managing Director at TAP AG. "TAP expects to secure funding from a number of multilateral institutions, such as the European Bank for...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2016/05/02
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the OECD sector...
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2016/04/30
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the...
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2016/02/26
Country: United Kingdom
Issue: OECD
(Jubilee Debt Campaign, Liege, 10 February 2016) The UK’s Department for International Development is considering using aid money to subsidise lower interest rates for export credits for some low income countries... Under OECD rules, Western government export credit agencies, such as UK Export...
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2016/01/27
Issue: Corruption, OECD, Transparency
(TFX News, London, 11 January 2016) Localisation requirements in emerging-markets projects are meant to be a way of giving back; an attempt at ensuring a lasting beneficial legacy for the local population of the respective country. But is this ostensibly benign endeavour offering a perfect...
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2016/01/27
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams, OECD, Renewables
(International Rivers, Berkeley, 3 December 2015) At the Paris COP, 500 NGOs from 85 countries published a manifesto on 10 Reasons Why Climate Initiatives Should Not Include Large Hydropower Projects. The manifesto explicitly refers to the inclusion of large hydro projects in the special terms...
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2015/12/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 17 December 2015) On 8 June 2015 Both ENDS – in conjunction with and on behalf of Associação Fórum Suape Espaço Socioambiental, Conectas Direitos Humanos and Colônia de Pescadores do Município do Cabo de Santo Agostinho – notified the Dutch National Contact Point of a...
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2015/12/31
Country: India
Issue: OECD
(India Times, New Delhi, 27 December 2015) The government has asked the Reserve Bank of India to reconsider its external commercial borrowing (ECB) norms to allow foreign currency debt to infrastructure sector for medium term also. Sources said Transport and Highways Secretary Chhibber has...
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