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Probe International works to hold both Canadian and international aid agencies, as well as aid-backed Canadian corporations, to account for the environmental and economic damage they inflict on developing countries. By bankrolling unaccountable governments, agencies such as the Canadian International Development Agency and the World Bank, have caused environmental havoc, financial ruin and social harm throughout the Third World. Despite "pro-poor" and "pro-environment" rhetoric, such agencies have financed environmentally damaging and uneconomic hydro projects, hazardous mining operations, as well as road-building and forestry schemes that have led to widespread deforestation and the impoverishment of rural communities. Through it all, financial institutions like the World Bank have shown a blatant disregard for the democratic rights and property rights of the people most affected by the projects their aid supports. Probe International, together with citizens' groups from around the world, is calling for an end to the funding that finances harmful projects and for funders to take responsibility for the harm they have caused the world's poor.
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World Bank should improve environmental record, review says
July 22, 2008
An internal World Bank evaluation of the lending giant's environmental record gave the Bank a low rating for follow-through, the International Herald Tribune reports. [Full story]
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Probe International asks Canadian government to provide legal aid to Three Gorges dam victims
February 13, 2008
Read all correspondence. [Full story]
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Canadian government responds to Probe International's recommendation that it must take responsibility for role in disastrous Three Gorges project.
February 06, 2008
Last November, Probe International called for the Canadian government to "make amends for failing to warn the Chinese government that the project's environmental risks would ultimately threaten the lives, property, and economic future of millions of people living along the Yangtze river." Read the orginal letter and the government's response. [Full story]
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PI Policy: The problem with environmental impact assessments
January 06, 2008
Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are now standard practice for dam builders. Probe International's Grainne Ryder explains how this seemingly positive development actually undermines citizen rights and harms the environment. [Full story]
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World Bank continues Philippines loan freeze; officials talk back
December 12, 2007
The World Bank has said it will not approve a $232 million loan to the Philippines until it is convinced anti-corruption measures have been put in place to protect the project the funds are intended for. [Full story]
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Corruption is why we are so poor
November 12, 2007
Of the billions of dollars Western countries send to Bangladesh for the purpose of economic development, an estimated 75 percent is "one way or another misappropriated by the privileged," writes physician and health economics specialist, Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin. [Full story]
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The Jinghong dam
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