II. About the Authors

Authors

The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam),works in partnership with non-governmental organizations globally on environment and development issues. SEEN has produced three prior reports on the World Bank: "The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate for Business," (May 1997); "The World Bank's Juggernaut: The Coal-Fired Industrial Colonization of the Indian State of Orissa" (September 1996); and "Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest: Opportunity or Liability for the World's Poorest Women?" (February 1997). Network coordinator Daphne Wysham is co-editor of a book of essays on the World Bank, Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Economic Order (Pluto, 1995). Program Associate Dafna Laurie provided research for this report. For more information, please contact: SEEN/IPS, 733-15th St., NW, Suite 1020, Washington, DC 20005. Phone:202-234-9382. Fax: 202-387-7915. Web site: http://www.seen.org

The International Trade Information Service, a project of the non-profit Tides Center, was formed in 1995 to investigate and expose the social and environmental impacts of international trade. Previous reports involving ITIS research include three ground-breaking reports on the production and trade of ozone-depleting chemicals (two in collaboration with Ozone Action, one with Greenpeace International); two reports in collaboration with SEEN, "The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate for Business," (May 1997) and "The World Bank's Juggernaut: The Coal-Fired Industrial Colonization of the Indian State of Orissa" (September 1996); and "A Day in the Life of U.S.-Indonesia Trade," an independent report on the social and environmental repercussions of a typical day's commerce between the two countries. ITIS also provides background reports for numerous non-profit organizations on a wide variety of subjects. For more information, please contact: Jim Vallette, ITIS, P.O. Box 658, Southwest Harbor, ME, 04609, USA. Phone: 1-207-244-3106. Fax: 1-800-861-9611. E-mail: itis@igc.apc.org

Acknowledgments:

The authors would like to thank the following individuals and foundations for their support and contributions to this report: Peter Bahouth and the Turner Foundation, the C.S. Mott Foundation, John Cavanagh, Francesco Martone, Antonio Tricario, Steve Kent, James Barnes, Christopher Moyles, Oronto Douglas, Njoki Njehu, Soren Ambrose, Rhys Roth, Colin Rajah, Doug Norlen, Pad Green, Tony Juniper, Ian Willmore, Nick Rau, Gaby Bendall, Jon Coifman, David Hunter, Andrea Durbin, and John Sohn.