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The World Bank Inspection Panel: A Record Of The First International Accountability Mechanism And Its Role For Human Rights, Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte

Human Rights Brief

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"The Environmental Impacts Of International Finance Corporation Lending And Proposals For Reform: A Case Study Of Conservation And Oil Development In The Guatemalan Petén", Ian A. Bowles, Amy B. Rosenfeld, Cyril F. Kormos, Conrad C.S. Reining, James D. Nations, Thomas T. Ankersen

UF Law Faculty Publications

This Article presents a case study of lending by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, in the oil and gas sector in Guatemala. The case study emphasizes the need for additional environmental reform at IFC. With two separate loans in 1994 and 1996, IFC supported the activities of a small international oil company that was operating within a national park in the northern Guatemalan Petdn, an area of rich tropical forests and globally important wetlands. The company's operations had been "grandfathered"in to the park upon its creation in 1990. Funding from IFC …

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Precedent-Setting Ngo Campaign Saves The World Bank's Inspection Panel, Daniel D. Bradlow

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This article, after describing the stakes in the ongoing debate about the operating procedures of the World Bank's Inspection Panel (Panel), explains the causes of this controversy. Thereafter it discusses the evolution of the proposal of the Working Group of the Bank's Board of Directors to correct the problems in the Panel's operating procedures. It suggests that, if the Board has the political will to adopt it, the final proposal of the Working Group has the potential to create a Panel procedure that is effective, independent, and impartial. The reason for this possibility is that the Bank, in an innovative …