By leveraging its ties with non-western powers, BRICS can check US hegemony
2014-08-02 , Issue 31 Volume 11
Not Just Another Brick In The Geopolitical Wall
Tag: World Bank
Padma. A bridge too far.
He did resign in the end. And the resignation was accepted. Minutes before the announcement, it was still being debated on the talk shows. Would this be another hoax? Would she accept the resignation? Had we finally gotten rid of him? Regardless, it was too little, too late. Continue reading “Padma. A bridge too far.”
Imagining our Future Together: A Call for South Asia Artists to Share Your Art!
SUBMITTED BY?SOUTH ASIA?ON TUE, 04/03/2012 – 15:59
Are you a South Asian artist from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka and born in or after 1975?
You are invited to share examples of your work for the exhibition?South Asia Artists: Imagining Our Future Together.
Imagining our Future Together is a juried group exhibition that will be on display in throughout South Asia and beyond. Continue reading “Imagining our Future Together: A Call for South Asia Artists to Share Your Art!”
WB finds graft rampant in govt, NGOs
By David Bergman
The New Age
Thursday, 2 February, 2012
Five non-governmental organisations have admitted to the World Bank that they made corrupt payments to Bangladesh government officials to receive contracts under a bank-funded project.
The admissions are contained in a report of an investigation which the World Bank?s Integrity Vice President conducted into the disbursement to hundreds of NGOs of part of a $53.3 million loan that the bank had given the Bangladesh government to further post-literacy continuing education.
Four of the five NGOs told World Bank investigators that to get a contract under the project, which lasted between 2001 and 2007, they each had to pay at least Tk 100,000 in bribes to government officials, money that was channelled to the officials through intermediaries.
Some NGOs had to pay as much as Tk 600,000 in bribes to obtain a contract, the investigators were told. Continue reading “WB finds graft rampant in govt, NGOs”