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Such action from the WHC would also help to educate and empower civil society, while placing pressure on financial institutions to withhold the funding required for massive development projects.
Rather than fostering transparency, the government has tried to jeopardize projects like Diavgeia (the website on which all government decisions are supposed to be published).
More realistically, the plan projects a steep decline in Puerto Rico’s population, from 3.3 million today to 2.1 million by 2058.
In Bolivia, the populist/communitarian movement is in the saddle, but is failing to do much more than shelve reform projects.
Indeed, Angola produces more oil for China than Saudi Arabia does, and, at times, as many as 100,000 Chinese workers have been working on Angolan infrastructure projects.
National projects ring hollow, and the so-called international community remains an abstraction.
Unfortunately, while there is a surge in new development financing around the world, especially in energy and infrastructure projects, there is also an uptick in efforts by governments to restrict freedom of expression, association, and assembly.
Meanwhile, the World Bank continues to fund government projects in Ethiopia.
In a recent report, the monitoring group Human Rights Watch documents repeated cases of individuals and communities affected by projects financed by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation who have stood up to defend their rights, only to suffer an array of abuses for doing so.
According to the investigative group Global Witness, an average of more than three environmental activists were killed per week in 2015 while defending their lands, territories, and resources against externally funded projects.
As Global Witness makes clear, the presence of development aid in many of these projects allows for interested parties, such as governments and corporations, to demonize environmental defenders as “anti-development” and therefore unpatriotic.
More than 100 civil-society organizations from around the world have launched a campaign to urge development finance institutions and their shareholder governments to respect human rights in their projects, promote an environment for safe participation in development processes, and ensure that their investments do not put human-rights defenders at risk.
This means that aid must be conditional on binding commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to abuses against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.
A safe and enabling environment for sustainable development must allow people to criticize the process without fear of reprisal, and most projects will benefit in the long run if they are accepted, if not fully endorsed, by directly affected communities.
It’s as if we reacted to Fukushima by better handling gas emissions in oil-shale projects.
Malaysia, for example, has already had to cancel $22 billion worth of Chinese-backed projects.
Such conservation-based development projects prove that economic growth and environmental protection are not incompatible.
Of course, you could fall back on more traditional reasons to believe in a round earth, like the fact that our planet projects a round-looking shadow on the moon during eclipses.
Perhaps, but they are less expensive than continuing to support projects that do no good.
But companies, too, have an enormous capacity to do harm, and investments in corporate social responsibility initiatives or community projects do little or nothing to mitigate that harm or offset ethical breaches.
The PLA intrusion, by threatening that Indian base, may have been intended to foreclose India’s ability to choke off supplies to Chinese troops and workers in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, where China has expanded its military footprint and strategic projects.
To guard those projects, several thousand Chinese troops reportedly have been deployed in the rebellious, predominantly Shia region, which is closed to the outside world.
But, as long as Trump projects uncertainty, he will effectively create worst-case-scenario conditions, because markets, investors, central banks, and governments have no choice but to prepare for the worst, even if they are hoping for the best.
Scholarly studies and research projects have established what common sense might already have told us: if you educate a boy, you educate a person; but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.
Despite a wealth of opportunities across the Russian economy, the country’s hostile business climate – including bloated bureaucracies, widespread corruption, and the expansion of state-owned companies – has weakened Russian and foreign investors’ incentive to start new projects or expand existing ones.
Eurozone politicians tend to believe that it is possible to regain competitiveness by carrying out reforms, undertaking infrastructure projects, and improving productivity, but without reducing domestic prices.
Private-sector flows have been much larger throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well, owing to attractive conditions for foreign direct investment – much of it comprising long-term projects with associated benefits like knowledge transfer and the introduction of international best practices.
Moreover, there is a danger of debt and unpaid loans from projects that turn out to be economic “white elephants,” and security conflicts could bedevil projects that cross so many sovereign borders.
Infrastructure projects like the Berlin to Baghdad railway roused tensions among the Great Powers.
The effect will be to increase the number of bankable projects in which both local businesses and international firms can invest.
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