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    <title>BIC Updates: Transparency at the IDB</title>
    <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Issue.12.aspx</link>
    <description>The latest news on Transparency at the IDB from the Bank Information Center</description>
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      <title>IDB rejects civil society dialogue </title>
      <description>The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) dismisses a proposal for a joint seminar on Amazon infrastructure and sustainability planning mechanisms at upcoming civil society meeting in Montevideo.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3888.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Record 2007 IDB lending comes at expense of environment, communities</title>
      <description>As the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced record lending of $9.6 billion in 2007, environmental and human rights groups warned that the milestone had come at the expense of the environment and communities.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3723.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:07:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El record de préstamos del BID se logra a expensas del Ambiente y las comunidades</title>
      <description>El Banco agravando el Cambio Climático; Promueve Combustibles Fósiles y Deforestación.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3731.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IDB Watch </title>
      <description>A publication of civil society groups working to reform the Inter-American Development Bank.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3713.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Unaccountable and unsustainable, IDB champions corporate interests at expense of citizens</title>
      <description>Bank ignores climate change and development indicators as estimated 250 million Latin Americans live in poverty despite near half-century of lending.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3715.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:25:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Como ser relevante en América Latina: lo último en la realineación del BID</title>
      <description>Si hay algo que se puede decir de Luis Alberto Moreno es que no pierde el tiempo. Nombrado cuarto presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en el 2005, durante su primera reunión anual hace apenas un año anunció que el BID tomaría un nuevo papel en América Latina. Lea el artículo analítico de Vince McElhinny sobre el proceso de realineación, sus componentes y preocupaciones.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3542.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:48:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to become relevant in Latin America: the latest on the IDB realignment</title>
      <description>Whatever else you might say of him, Luis Alberto Moreno does not waste time. Named fourth president of the Inter-American Development Bank in 2005, he announced IDB would remake its role in Latin America at his first annual meeting just one year later. Read Vince McElhinny's new policy brief on the realignment process, components and concerns.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3440.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:52:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tensions rise within the Inter-American Development Bank</title>
      <description>The Bank's Employee Association sent a letter to IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno on June 6 expressing "deep concern" about the IDB's upcoming realignment. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3413.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:32:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Civil Society Guide to IFI Policy Reviews</title>
      <description>The IFI Policy Review Web page is a recent addition to the BIC website! This page is updated regularly to allow you to keep track of consultation documents, important dates, civil society analyses and more.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2107.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:09:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IDB Releases Disclosure Policy Implementation Plan</title>
      <description>On January 12th, the Inter-American Development Bank released an Information Disclosure Policy Implementation Plan, outlining the phased implementation of their new disclosure requirements.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1358.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:18:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IDB approves a new Disclosure Policy</title>
      <description>While the new policy is a marked improvement over the previous, in a number of areas it still falls short of the transparency standards already in place at other MDBs.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.559.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:45:08 GMT</pubDate>
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