By Toby McIntosh The World Bank was slow to respond when Tanzania proposed, in 2018, to set criminal penalties for critics of official statistics, according…
Category: World Bank/Tanzania
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank improperly refused to release more than 100 documents, according to a ruling by the Access to Information Appeals Board…
By Toby McIntosh It’s been more than a year since eyeonglobaltransparency.net asked the World Bank for documents concerning the Bank’s controversial position and actions concerning…
The refusal by the Tanzanian government to release data about the number of cases and deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic for six weeks has drawn…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank Board has approved a $500 million loan for secondary education in Tanzania, despite a “no” vote by the United…
By Toby McIntosh An external appeals body at the World Bank on March 18 said it “might properly intervene” in case of “unreasonable delay” by…
By Toby J. McIntosh National governments are blocking the timely disclosure of key World Bank documents about proposed projects in their countries, doing so more…
By Toby McIntosh Virtually all governments receiving World Bank loans are preventing public disclosure about proposed loans in advance of deliberations by the Bank Board,…
By Toby McIntosh The revised Tanzanian Statistics Act could result in government censorship of statistical findings deemed unacceptable. A government-appointed committee could require the publication…
[This story has been corrected and updated here – Ed.] By Toby McIntosh Legislation passed by the Tanzanian Parliament June 27 drops controversial criminal penalties…