The greening of giving. (Aid and the Environment) (includes related article on World Bank aid to environmental projects)
Economist (US), The, December, 1993
Non-governmental groups (NGOs) concerned with the environment have influenced donors of economic assistance to study the environmental impact of that aid. Increasing concern about the environment has also led donors to favor projects that improve the environment.
IN THE late 1980s the European Community's aid for rural development in Cameroon was cut. Worthy plans for conserving and replanting the country's forests were dropped. Instead, the EC paid for a smart new metalled road from Yaounde to Ayos. When the community's auditors went to examine the new road they found that its economic rate of return was much lower than expected. And that was not all they found. The road's "60-metre-wide trench mainly runs through natural secondary forest . . . Its impact on the...
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