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As the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Board of Governors prepares to meet in Madrid on October 8 to debate the need for a 9th Capital Increase, a new and exhaustive report by Vince McElhinny of Bank Information Center (BIC) finds that the Bank fails a stress test based on principles outlined by U.

Zachau who paid a visit to southern province of Gaziantep for the opening of World Bank Information Center delivered a speech in a meeting of the Gaziantep Chamber of Industry.

The US organizations Amazon Watch and Bank Information Center (BIC) and the Bolivian Colectivo de Estudios Aplicados al Desarrollo Social said in a press release that the bank's plans for the region result in "human rights abuses, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and a significant increase of greenhouse-gas emissions.

This sentiment was echoed by David Hunter, interim director of the Bank Information Center, who added, "Since (the 1999 World Trade Organization annual meeting in) Seattle, the most critical issue facing international institutions is how they will orient themselves to the public, and the rising number of stakeholders who believe they have a legitimate interest in being heard.

US based NGO Bank Information Center (BIC) recently published World Bank energy sector lending: encouraging the world's addiction to fossil fuels, a study on the World Bank's approach to energy sector investments.

2 billion for 2008, a 165 percent increase over 2007, according to a Bank Information Center (BIC) analysis.