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    <title>BIC Updates: Georgia</title>
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    <description>The latest news on Georgia from the Bank Information Center</description>
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      <title>GTI Update 2: World Bank Launches Transparency Review </title>
      <description>World Bank publicly launches review of its Disclosure Policy</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11069.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>GTI Update: World Bank to review transparency standards</title>
      <description>As the World Bank launches a review of its policy on access to information, the Global Transparency Initiative will track the review process and provide analytical support to civil society groups concerned with transparency standards at the Bank.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11062.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nabucco's future decided in Hungary</title>
      <description>A meeting on the status of the planned natural gas pipeline convenes in Budapest.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11025.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New EBRD policy comes into effect</title>
      <description>EBRD's Environmental and Social Policy came into effect on November 12, 2008. Projects approved past this date will have to meet higher diligence standards. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.10943.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:10:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dramatic increase in World Bank loans to Europe and Central Asia</title>
      <description>The World Bank Group (WBG) loans to countries in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) increased by 30% between FY07 and FY08.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3904.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Additional challenges for the BTC Pipeline</title>
      <description>Following the August 25 reopening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline after the armed conflict in Georgia, the BTC has faced several technical and strategic issues when it comes to its future and viability.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3900.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The IFIs and financial intermediaries in ECA: Implementation of environmental and social standards</title>
      <description>International Financial Institution (IFI) lending through financial intermediaries (FIs) has become particularly significant in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, but the IFIs lack adequate policies to ensure social and environmental best practices are applied to subsequent FI lending. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3884.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IFIs respond to Georgian conflict</title>
      <description>The international financial institutions (IFIs) have offered aid to Georgia, as the conflict winds down.  </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3875.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Turkmenistan’s pipeline prospects: China, Russia, India, or Europe?</title>
      <description>As the great powers seek energy security, Turkmenistan is at the center of a number of pipeline proposals.  </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3870.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Explosion along the BTC Pipeline confirms civil society concerns</title>
      <description>A fire on the Turkish segment of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has led to declined oil production, pipeline closure, and security fears. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3867.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kazakhstan signs BTC agreement into law, plans new pipelines</title>
      <description>Kazakhstan has signed into law a 2006 agreement to transport oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, while making plans to connect its oil to the BTC route through additional domestic and trans-Caspian pipelines.   </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3804.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Georgia Country Update #1</title>
      <description>Recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to activities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in Georgia. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3797.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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