Several Bank projects elicited strong negative public reactions due to adverse environmental and social impacts. Complaints were registered by the Bank’s major shareholders and from environmental NGOs. In response, the Bank created an Environment Department in the 1987 reorganization, sharply increased the number of environmental staff, instituted environmental safeguard policies, and launched a program of environmental lending. The new department...
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INFORMACIÓN
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2016/01/01
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Documento de trabajo
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104711
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1
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2016/04/13
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Disclosed
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First World Bank Strategy Statement on the Environment
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Environmental and Social Impact