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Gaffe All the Way to the Bank
World Bank encourages destructive logging in the Congo, says report |
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05 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:21 PM on 05 Oct 2007 The World Bank's encouragement of industrial forestry as a means of economic recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is counter to the organization's legal commitment to protecting the environment, according to a new report. An independent inspection panel charges that the bank overestimated possible export revenue from forestry, leading to a logging scramb ... |
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| Topics: Congo, logging, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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