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GAP Reports
The IDB, Poverty and Racial Discrimination: A new report prepared by GAP shows that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the most important multilateral lender to Latin America, fails to promote racial equality adequately. The issue affects the identification, preparation, and implementation of IDB programs and projects in the region, as well as the Bank’s hiring, retention, and promotion practices. Click here to read the Executive Summary in English or Resumen Ejecutivo en Espanol, Full Report in English or El Informe en Español. (October 2009)
Corrupt Privitization Does Not Deter IMF Lending to Sri Lanka: On July 24th, the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a 20-month standby arrangement worth $2.6 billion (U.S.) for the government of Sri Lanka. According to the IMF’s mission chief for Sri Lanka, the lending will help the government to reverse the decline in tax revenue suffered over the past few years. The IMF is on the record, however, recognizing that budget deficits and the lack of reserves are the result of a reluctance on the part of successive governments to implement measures necessary to safeguard state assets and collect revenues. Among other things, two Supreme Court decisions handed down since June 2008 show specifically that corruption and fraud favoring private interests in the sale of state-owned enterprises, a policy promoted by the Fund itself, together with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), are partially to blame. GAP gratefully acknowledges the research and contributions to this paper of Consultants 21 Limited, Colombo, Sri Lanka, www.consultants21.com. Click here for the Lanka Marine Services Supreme Court Judgment and Click here for the Sri Lanka Insurance Company Supreme Court Judgment.
Racial Discrimination at the World Bank: This report investigates and finds evidence of racial discrimination against black professional grade employees at the World Bank. The report, which documents the treatment of these employees in recruitment, retention and internal judicial decisions, finds that a race ceiling exists at the institution, and that the Bank’s legal system fails to address racial discrimination adequately. Specifically, the report details that of over 3,500 professional grade World Bank staff worldwide (more than 1,000 of whom are Americans), there are only four black Americans. Click here to read the annexes. (June 2009)
The ABCs of Drug Safety: Accountability, Balance, and Citizen Empowerment: This report examines a number of recent and historical controversies with regard to clinical trial studies and institutional review boards (IRBs) – analyzing how major players at both the corporate and FDA levels have too often failed to perform their critical duties to safeguard human health. More importantly, This report proposes constructive reforms to the overall process, calling for the empowerment of trial participants, whistleblower protections for employees staffing trials and IRBs, removal of financial conflicts of interest between parties, and trial biases in favor of approval of proposed drugs. Click here to read the Executive Summary. (April 2009)
Running the Gauntlet: The Campaign for Credible Corporate Whistleblower Rights: This report surveys the dangerous landscape of corporate whistleblower laws, and recommends strategies for corporate whistleblowers to best protect themselves from future retaliation. (September 2008)
Privatization & Corruption: The World Bank and Azerbaijan: This report exposes the World Bank’s role in the widespread corruption surrounding privatization in Azerbaijan during the late 1990’s. The report shows that James Wolfensohn, then president of the World Bank, personally assisted a rogue financier in his efforts to gain control of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). (August 2008)
Plundering the Yerevan Water Utility: This report investigates allegations of corruption in the World Bank-funded Municipal Development Project (MDP) in Yerevan, Armenia. A whistleblower with access to internal documents about the MDP produced evidence showing that the General Director of the Yerevan Water and Sewerage Company (YWSC) in the capital and the international representative of the Italian company contracted to manage and modernize the YWSC were the same person during the crucial period between 2000 and 2002. As a result of this conflict of interest, project objectives were changed without authorization, substandard materials were used, performance standards were lowered, and works to be completed were never undertaken, among other things. (August 2008)
Risky Appropriations: Gambling US Energy Policy on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: GAP and a coalition of public interest, environmental and policy groups are releasing a groundbreaking report detailing the severe shortcomings and false assertions posed in the Global Energy Nuclear Partnership (GNEP). (March 2008)
OSLA Proposal for the United Nations: Following consultations with the Under Secretary for Management of the UN Secretariat, GAP undertook a study of possible models and recommendations for the proposed UN Office of Staff Legal Assistance (OSLA), using national and international precedents as a guide. (November 2007)
Review of the Department of Institutional Integrity at the World Bank: Reviews the World Bank's Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) and its practices from 2005-2007 and documents several immediate and long-term problems at INT. (September 2007)
Citizens Monitoring and Technical Assessment: Details the elevated and potentially harmful levels of radioactivity that are present in environmental samples collected in the area around the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. (July 2007)
Radioactive Wastes and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: Examines the Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program that proposes to expand nuclear energy worldwide. (April 2007)
Redacting the Science of Climate Change: Details the findings of a year-long investigation into political interference at federal climate science agencies. (March 2007)
Atmosphere of Pressure: Uncovers new evidence of widespread political interference in federal climate science. (February 2007)
Nongovernmental Monitoring and Technical Assessment of Past, Present, and Future Techa River Radiation: Details the levels of radionuclear contamination in the Techa River and Chelyabinsk region of Russia. (October 2006)
Systematic Injustice: Hanford Workers' Compensation Program: Documents the Department of Energy's interference with Hanford workers' compensation claims. (August 2006)
Citizens Monitoring of Columbia River Radionuclides: GAP has found previously unknown measures of radioactivity around the perimeter of the Hanford nuclear site in Richland, WA. (June 2005)
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