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The Wall Street Journal, "India Project Shows Risks of Intervening, Despite Sound Goals," August 14, 2000
July 25, 2000, World Bank Cancels India Coal Loan 
The Arizona Republic, World Bank Project to Help Chad Develop Oil Fields Draws Fire, June 7, 2000
Philadelphia Inquirer, "African oil project's effect questioned.  The World Bank sees it aiding the people of Chad. Activists see it aiding only the wealthy." June 7, 2000
Agence France Presse, "World Bank approves financing for Chad-Cameroon pipeline", June 6, 2000
NPR - All Things Considered on the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline World Bank Decision. June 5, 2000

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Houston Chronicle, " OK for African oil project expected. But its impact on two impoverished nations debated", David Ivanovich, June 5, 2000
The Washington Post, "World Bank to Vote on Disputed African Pipeline", Nora Boustany, June 2, 2000
InterPress Service, "ENVIRONMENT-FINANCE: Public Lenders Fuel Climate Change, Warns Report", Danielle Knight, May 31, 2000
April 28, 2000, The Chad Cameroon pipeline project will be considered by the Executive Directors at the World Bank on May 23, 2000. Read comments submitted by SEEN, April 28, 2000 re: Chevron's record in Nigeria.
Financial Times, WEST REGIONAL:  West African Gas Pipeline under environmental spotlight, April 27, 2000
BBC Monitoring South Asia - Economic, " World Bank projects said inimical to tribals, animal habitat in India", April 20, 2000

The Press Trust of India, April 20, 2000: WB projects will devastate tribals, animal habitat in India

Special to Corporate Watch, "Activists from the Developing World See D.C. Events as a Watershed in Global Solidarity", Julie Light, April 17, 2000
Article by Jeff Pruzan quotes SEEN's Daphne Wysham: "Spencer Abraham faces down energy crisis"
NPR Weekend Edition, "IMF/World Bank Alternatives", April 16, 2000. 
Salon.com article, "World Bank and IMF; Good, evil or irrelevant?" April 15, 2000
NPR - Morning Edition, "World Bank Policies", April 13, 2000.   Hear it in Real Audio!

National Radio Project, Special Programing on the activities surrounding the World Bank/IMF meetings "Wednesday, April 13, Inside Capital: Day Four," including quotes from SEEN's Daphne Wysham:

Associated Press, "7 protesters arrested near World Bank," April 10, 2000 

InterPress Service, "Economy: NGOs Prepare for Protests at IMF, World Bank ..."
Communities Vow to Resist Proposed  West African Gas Pipeline, April 4, 2000
Journal of Commerce, March 29, 2000.  Editorial: "World Bank plan may thwart carbon reduction."
InterPress Service, March 6, 2000, "India: U.S. Gov't Pays Lip Service to Environmental Protection"
InterPress Service, January 27, 2000. IPS-English RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Oil Giants Once Again Accused of Abuses.  This article draws from the report "Oil For Nothing", a report written by a delegation of US NGOs to Nigeria in September 1999, of which SEEN was a member.
Press Clips on 2000 SEEN report, "Biggest Loophole in Climate Treaty May Come from World Bank, Export Credit Agencies"

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