More Corruption Scandals

From our friends at the Bretton Woods Project:

[BWP Alert] Volcker panel releases report on Bank anti-graft
unit

The panel headed by former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Paul

Volcker, created to review the work of the World Bank's anti-corruption
unit, the Department of Institutional Integrity (or 'INT' - headed by
Wolfowitz acolyte Suzanne Rich Folsom), released its 40-page report
today:
http://www.independentpanelreview.com/report.shtml


The official report comes a few days after US NGO Government
Accountability Project (GAP) released a scathing parallel examination of
INT, finding some very dodgy practices indeed:

http://www.whistleblower.org/content/press_detail.cfm?press_id=1145


For ongoing discussion of the reports, their fallout and all the gossip
see the blog on IFIwatchnet:http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.italic.gif
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http://ifiwatchnet.org/?q=en/featured_blog/369

And from our friends at BIC:

WSJ: World Bank Wasted Money and Lives in Buying Wrong Medicine

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118955959601924586.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

World Bank Issues Implementation Plan for Anticorruption Strategy

freedominfo.org - IFTI Watch Update, August 28, 2007

http://www.freedominfo.org

Washington, DC, August 28, 2007 - The World Bank has released its long-awaited "implementation plan" for its governance and anticorruption strategy, but the document is much shorter and less specific that the guiding Bank "strategy" set in March, according to a new article posted today on freedominfo.org's IFTI Watch column.

While the plan includes some new revelations, it does not specifically mention media development or support for freedom of information, nor does it propose any changes to the Bank's own disclosure policy, something Bank officials previously have said would occur.

Please follow the link below to read the full article:

http://www.freedominfo.org