By Toby McIntosh The revelation that Senegal’s external debt was seriously and intentionally understated raises questions about how to assure accurate and transparent information about…
Category: World Bank
“JUPITER” assessments being conducted by the World Bank promise to shed light on the transparency of national judicial systems in several African nations. So far…
HELP WANTED: Data expert wanted to help hapless journalist make sense of a World Bank “heat map” on sovereign debt. VALUE: Many countries are not…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank, or maybe Sierra Leone, has denied access to a document that could shed light on the use of Bank…
By Toby McIntosh The rules on transparency and participation for the new climate change Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) will be written soon. A few…
The drive toward disclosure of the “GEMs” database, seems to be perking along, still with many questions unanswered and limited information. EYE has received a…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has provided a smidgen of new information about the probable disclosure of the “GEMs” database, but also left many…
By Toby McIntosh A “ladder of transparency” was described recently by a World Bank official. The ladder has four rungs for countries to climb to…
By Toby McIntosh The three-person external appeals board that decides appeals concerning the World Bank’s access to information policy has issued several pro-transparency decisions this…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank is denying access to documents about its reviews of contracts using Bank funds, and to the contracts themselves. The…