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INFRASTRUCTURE: Region (MRB Dec 2001): World Bank backs hydropower.
The World Bank's International Finance Corporation affiliate is to provide up to $60 million, a potential loan of up to $40 million, and a risk management facility of up to $10 million for the massive Bujagali Hydropower Project in Uganda. Fewer than three percent of the population has access to grid supplied electricity.
Also, the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's concessional lending institution, will provide a $115 million partial risk guarantee to commercial banks.
The 200-MW hydropower Bujagali project, located on the Victoria Nile River, is accompanied by a separate power sector ...
- Uganda's Bujagali Hydropower Project Reaches Financial Close; Project to curb...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire December 24, 2007 700+ words
...December 2007-WORLD BANK GROUP: Uganda's Bujagali Hydropower Project Reaches...Agency, the World Bank's political...mitigator. "The Bujagali Hydropower Project is...years. The Bujagali Hydropower Project is...element of the World Bank ...
- UGANDA: ACTIVISTS DECRY WORLD BANK'S SUPPORT FOR BUJAGALI DAM.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service April 27, 2007 700+ words
...groups are fuming about the World Bank's decision to support the...the decision Thursday, the World Bank said that the Bujagali Hydropower Project, as it is formally...lake. Contradicting the World Bank, they say the dam could...
- World Bank Dams Uganda. (Behind the Lines).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Multinational Monitor Cary, Charlie January 1, 2002 700+ words
In December, the World Bank's Board of Directors...on the controversial Bujagali Hydropower Project in Uganda...Bank's own policies. World Bank officials say the project...Meanwhile, the World Bank's own Inspection Panel...
- AFRICA: LIGHTBULBS MAY REPLACE LAMPS UNDER WORLD BANK PLAN.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service September 10, 2007 700+ words
...Aslam WASHINGTON, Sep. 7, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The World Bank hopes to bring modern lighting to one-fourth of Africa...efforts and have snarled undertakings such as Uganda's Bujagali hydropower project. In consequence, many governments have begun to...
- Middle East & Africa: African Development Bank - Chinese Model Inspires AfDB -...
- Magazine article from: The Banker Godier, Kevin May 1, 2007 700+ words
...speaking after the IMF/World Bank spring meetings. Restored...facilitation bank' - the World Bank - the AfDB understands...facilities such as the World Bank's El Tebbin power...power projects: the Bujagali hydropower dam in Jinja, Uganda...
- Uganda: Sh200b energy project mooted.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo November 12, 2009 700+ words
...said. Kiyemba was meeting the World Bank Africa Energy Team, which is...Sector Development and the $860m Bujagali Hydropower projects are some of the ventures...plant. Paul Baringanire, the World Bank power engineer, noted that their...
- Dammed project.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Foreign Policy Bosshard, Peter MacNeill, Jim Rich, Bruce Mallaby, Sebastian November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Mallaby claims that the World Bank's environmental and...holding hostage the Bujagali hydropower project--and thus...associated with it. The World Bank refused to properly...other places, the World Bank decided to ignore them...
- The World Bank at work.
- Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post Gibson, Tom September 1, 1990 700+ words
THE WORLD BANK AT WORK It's got the right name...America. On an international scale, the World Bank, AAA rated by Moody's, makes loans...lend at market rates. In short, the World Bank appears to be exactly what a bank is...
