The World Bank claims that the project will alleviate poverty because revenue from the oil for the Government of Chad and royalties for the Government of Cameroon for the use of the pipeline would be invested in poverty programs. This argument has little credibility, however, in view of the demonstrated lack of commitment by either government to alleviate poverty.
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Questions Concerning The World Bank and Chad/Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project -- Makin... - 0 views
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Words that likely came true. . .
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An environmental impact assessment is being carried out and an Environmental Panel was put in place to mitigate these problems. But the best environmental reports are of little help when there is no government commitment to carry out its recommendations. This lack of commitment is especially evident in Cameroon, a country with one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. Once the money is flowing, the unholy trinity of oil, power, and corruption will make corrective action difficult.
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In both Chad and Cameroon, civil society organizations struggling to increase democracy and defend human rights and the environment are taking root. The presence and growth of these organizations is a source of hope for more equitable and environmentally sound development, yet they face difficulties and threats from the existing power structures. They need strengthening and support, but the oil project may undermine hopes for a greater democratic opening.
Traversing Peoples Lives - 0 views
POLITICS: Chad Gets World Bank Over a Barrel - 0 views
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Four months ago, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was fuming at the African nation of Chad for diverting oil revenues from the Chad-Cameron pipeline slated for poverty alleviation and social spending to a budget allocation for arms purchases.
World Bank Suspends Loans to Chad Over Use of Oil Money - New York Times - 0 views
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Paul D. Wolfowitz, the World Bank president, on Friday suspended all loans to the central African nation of Chad, including one that helped finance a $4.2 billion oil pipeline, on the ground that it had broken an agreement to largely dedicate its oil reve
TchadForum - 0 views
IFC Environment - ECMG Reports - 0 views
The IFC's lessons of experience & the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project (Bretton W... - 0 views
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In September 2006, the IFC published the first issue of its new publication series entitled Lessons of Experience, which it dedicated to the experience of employing external monitors in the Chad-Cameroon Oil & Pipeline project.
Analysis: Unrest curtails Africa oil - 0 views
Africa: Burdened With Too Much Oil - 0 views
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Oil and other extractive sector companies look to Africa for its resource wealth without seeing the people. *Emira Woods recounts a personal trip to Nigeria's oil-rich delta region and compares it to similar situations in Chad and Liberia where the comm
TomPaine.com - World Bank OK With Blood For Oil - 0 views
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It has been a year since the horror of the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region-with over 200,000 dead in three years-began leaking across the border into Chad. It has also been a year since a simmering conflict boiled over into a full-scale confronta
Al Jazeera - 0 views
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Bush administration claims it's on a mission to root out terrorism all over the world, yet it provides the Chadian military with both trainings and armaments to keep groups linked to al-Qaeda active in the Sudan troubled region, Darfur.
Anger rises in oil-rich Chad as funds don't aid the poor - The Boston Globe - 0 views
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Three years after Chad began exporting its oil with assistance from the World Bank, few people outside the capital have access to electricity, running water, paved roads, and health clinics. Public schools are nonexistent. Life expectancy is 46 years for
Environmental Defense - Questions Concerning The World Bank and Chad/Cameroon Oil and P... - 0 views
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International development assistance for two of the poorest countries in Africa could soon be used to support a project planned by big oil companies. An international consortium consisting of Exxon, Shell and ELF is planning a multibillion dollar oil expl
Oil Aid News | Google Groups - 0 views
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Aid agencies and international institutions are using limited aid budgets to subsidize the expansion of the international oil industry. This list helps you stay informed about the relationship between oil aid, debt, climate change and global poverty as we
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