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2008/11/06
(JIBC, Tokyo, 12 November 2008) JIBC has released its list of new projects for the period from September 20 to November 12.
2008/11/05
(Istanbul, 2 December 2009) Doga Dernegi (BirdLife Partner in Turkey) has recently obtained visual proof that bulldozers and shovels have begun the destruction of ten thousand years of world heritage to make way for the Ilisu Dam, effectively ignoring the over 153 terms of reference required by the... more
2008/11/04
(Heinrich Boell Foundation, Berlin, 27 November 2008) The Heinrich Boell Foundation and urgewald have announced the launch of their web dossier "Log, stock and barrel" on financial institutions in the resource sector. The... more
2008/11/03
(Martin Broek, Amsterdam, 16 November 2008) A few scarcely noticed lines in a Dutch regional newspaper announced that Dutch ship builder the Schelde is going to help Indonesia build a new series of naval corvettes in a potentially huge military order. The Netherlands was the fifth ranking global... more
2008/11/02
A. Export credits and the financial crisis - Statement by the OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees
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2008/11/01
2008/10/07
(Journal of Commerce, Vancouver, 13 October 2008) Canadian participation in the construction of up to US$1 billion worth of infrastructure projects in Angola is being facilitated by the signing of a new agreement by Export Development Canada (EDC).
2008/10/06
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 16 October 2008) The Austrian export credit agency OeKB and Andritz AG are considering involvement in yet another scandalous project Gunns' Bell Bay Pulp Mill, a gigantic pulp mill in Tasmania. More than 200,000 hectares of primary forest - twice the size of the entire... more
2008/10/05
(EDC, Ottawa, 20 October 2008) Export Development Canada (EDC) has announced that it has begun proactively disclosing internal audit reports through its public website...taking measures to demonstrate its commitment to transparency in the relationships that it has with its shareholder, stakeholders... more
2008/10/04
(ePolitiX.com, London, 20 October 2008) The UK Commons environmental audit committee says that the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) needed to tighten up its environmental standards. The report said that the ECGD should use its influence over export credit agencies around the world to... more
2008/10/03
(Platts, NW 23Oct2008) The US, France and Japan are working to put international mechanisms into place to help finance construction of nuclear power plants in the US and elsewhere. Two principal targets are international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, and national export credit... more
2008/10/02
As world financial markets reel, the context and role of official (i.e. state/taxpayer funded) export credit agencies is undergoing significant changes and pressures.
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2008/10/01
(WEED, Berlin, 8 October 2008). Germany, Austria and Switzerland have started the official process of withdrawing financial support for the controversial Ilisu project in Turkey.
2008/09/12
(IPS, Washington, 15 September 2008) After funding a predictable boondoggle of a pipeline, the international lender hightails it out of an impoverished African nation. While this commentary focuses on the role of the World Bank, the U.S. Export Import Bank and French ECA Coface also supported this... more
2008/09/11
(Business Standard, New Delhi, 23 September 2008) Indian companies will have to stagger their expansions as financial instutions have started tightening lending to cope with the liquidity crunch in the aftermath of the turmoil in financial markets. But what’s interesting is that funds from ECAs are... more