Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Books and Media Worlds Apart: Local and Global Villages Periphery and globalised capitalism Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in Afghanistan Partnership for International Development World Bank’s water policy 04/2005		World Bank water policy The World Bank plays a key role for the water sector. Thanks to its prominent position in development cooperation, it has a crucial influence on the policies of both developing countries as well as on those of donors. A study by the German NGO WEED (World Economy, Ecology and Development) and the Protestant charity Brot für die Welt describes the bank’s water policy in Sri Lanka and India. These countries were chosen because the bank is implementing its policy at project , programme and sector levels in both. Uwe Hoering, Ann Kathrin Schneider: King Customer? The World Bank‘s „new“ water policy and its implementation in India and Sri Lanka, Oct 2004, 50 pages. Download: http://www2.weed-online.org/uploads/ KingCustomer_engl.fullversion