Articles & Briefers

2007 Articles & Briefers

Act Now! Demand for Greater Safeguards
NGO Forum on ADB, November 2007

 

ADB's Country Safeguards System
NGO Forum on ADB, November 2007

 

Energy Briefing Paper
ADB's Business of Development
NGO Forum on ADB, April 2007

 

Water Briefing Paper
ADB Water Panel Report: A Corporate Bias
NGO Forum on ADB, March 2007

2006 Articles & Briefers

Kuroda's Dilemma,By Isagani Serrano - July 2006
Aren't They Loud Enough, By Hemantha Withanage, July 2006
Challenges for Implementing ADB's Resettlement Policy in Cambodia: The Case of Highway One, By Rena Sugita
Creating Poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and Industrial Tree Plantations, By Chris Lang and Bruce Shoemaker, April 2006
Window Dressing for Business? The Asian Development Bank Safeguard Policy Implementation Review, By Grace Mang, NGO Forum on ADB, February 2006

2005 Articles & Briefers

05-11 : IMPREGNABLE ENTITLEMENT: India's Clamor for Genuine Women's Empowerment*
05-10 : WATER WAR: ADB's Water Projects in India *
05-09 : LABOR PAINS: Quandary in India's Labor Sector *
05-08 : DISCARDING PRO-PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT: The ADB and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) *
05-07 : PAVING THE WAY: For Development or Disempowerment? A Look into the ADB and India's Infrastructure Environment *
05-06 : TRADING COMMUNITY RIGHTS: The Implication of IFI-Sanctioned Trade Policies*
05-05 : ADB: CURE OR MALLADY? A Look into ADB's involvement in the Indian Health Sector *
05-04 : THE BUSINESS OF GOOD GOVERNANCE: A Peek into the Good Governance Policy of the ADB *
05-03 : BUYING POWER: The ADB and the Indian Power Sector *
* Norly Grace Mercado, NGO Forum on ADB, September 2005
05-02 : ADB's Water Policy Review 2005: Can we expect any Difference?
Hemantha Withanage, NGO Forum on ADB, July 2005
05-01 : Whether or not ADB's Accountability Ends with the CRP: The Saga of the Sri Lankan Highway
Hemantha Withanage, NGO Forum on ADB, July 2005

2002 Articles & Briefers

02-05 : Updates on Review of ADB's Forestry Policy
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral & Jessica Rosien, NGO Forum on ADB, September 2002
02-04 : Quick Updates on ADB's PRS
Jessica Rosien & Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, September 2002
02-03 : ADB's Water Policy: Contentious Excerpts
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2002
02-02 : Highlights and Updates on ADB Strategies and Policies
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral & Eileen Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2002
02-01 : ADB and People's Republic of China
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2002

1999-2001 Briefers

01-35 : Monitoring MWSS-Water Rates
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, October 2001
01-34 : Co-oprivatization, Note Rate Hike, The Answer to Maynilad's Woes
Teresa Diokno-Pascual, Jude Esguerra, Rhoda Viajar & Joffre Balce, Freedom from Debt Coalition, September 2001
01-33 : ADB & the Asian Crisis
Eileen Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, August 2001
01-32 : Melamchi Project: A Study
Shiva Paudel, ProPublic, July 2001
01-31 : Monitoring ADB's PRS - 1st two years
Violeta Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, July 2001
01-30 : ADB and Northeast Asia
Eileen Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, July 2001
01-29 : Thailand: Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project
Deborah Rephan, Environment Media Services, April 2001
01-28 : Pakistan: Lessons from Korangi 'Inspection' Case
CREED, Pakistan, April 2000
01-27 : Pakistan: Irrigation Project Sparks Social, Environmental Issues Anew
Eileen G. Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-26 : Cambodia: National Highway 1 Project
Eileen G. Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-25 : Power Sector Restructuring Program in the Philippines
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-24 : Pakistan's Karachi Water & Sewerage Board - World Bank's Guinea Pig on Water Privatization in South Asia
CREED, Pakistan, August 1998
01-23 : ADB's Water 'Management' (a.k.a. Privatization) Projects in Asia - Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-22 : Sources of ADB Funds - ADF, OCR and GCI
Eileen G. Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, March 2001
01-21 : ADB's 'Good Governance' and Corruption Policies: 'Windfall' from the Asian Crisis
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral and Eileen G. Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, March 2001
01-20 : Update: ADB's 1995 'Disclosure' Policy
Eileen G. Rillera, NGO Forum on ADB, March 2001
01-19 : The ADB's Inspection Function - Two Views
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) & NGO Working Group on ADB, March 1998
01-18 : ADB's Inspection Function Under Review
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, March 2001
01-17 : New 'NGO Center' at ADB
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-16 : ADB Draft Environment Policy
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-15 : Privatization - A Decade of Lessons Learned?
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, 1999
01-14 : Subregional Cooperation Galore in Asia-Pacific
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-13 : ADB's PSDS: Private Sector as Engine of Growth
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-12 : Reaching Global Consensus on Poverty Reduction
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-11 : Punishing the Poor: Debt, Corporate Subsidies and the ADB
Chris Adams, Focus on the Global South, October 2000
01-10 : Cambodia's Civil Society Comments on RGC's Poverty Reduction Strategy
NGO Forum on Cambodia, November 2000
01-09 : Have We Even Tried Asking the Poor?
Isagani Serrano, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, February 2001
01-08 : 'Poverty Reduction' Initiatives at ADB
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-07 : ADB & Japan
Tomoyo Saito & Kyoko Ishida, Japan Center for a Sustainable Development and Society (JACSES), April 2001
01-06 : CSOs Matter to MDBs
Isagani Serrano, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), June 1999
01-05 : Regional Round-up - Building NGO Capacity is Key to ADB Advocacy
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-04 : Why reform of the ADB is the Wrong Agenda
Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South, April 2001
01-03 : Have we made a Dent on the ADB?
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral & Takahiro Nanri, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-02 : No Aloha to ADB!
Violeta Q. Perez-Corral, NGO Forum on ADB, April 2001
01-01 : Anti-ADB Protests in Chiang Mai
Teresa Encarnacion-Tadem, University of the Philippines, 2000