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The World Bank’s Conflicted Corruption Fight

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has called corruption the single most important obstacle to development and has ratcheted up the...
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What’s Wrong with the World Bank’s Approach to Resettlement?

Lots, Says Longtime Resettlement Expert and Former WCD Commissioner The following is an excerpt from the new book The Future...
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Harnessing Wild Rivers: Who Pays the Price?

Since World War II some 45,000 large dams have been built, generating an estimated 20 percent of the world’s electricity...
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Big Hydro Hides its Role in Global Warming

A bitter debate has broken out in the scientific community over hydropower’s contribution to global warming. A leading Brazil-based climate...
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River Dolphins: Can They Be Saved?

River dolphins are small, aquatic mammals which belong to the order Cetacea. Scientists today classify river dolphins as endangered species...