Word: greeff
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...game of financing large dams. Grey says the Bank has learned from earlier mistakes, when dams benefited big investors and not the rural poor they were supposed to help - a point many environmentalists dispute. "It's arrogant to say that we've learned from the past," says Liane Greeff, who works for a South African NGO called the Environmental Monitoring Group and is highly critical of World Bank?backed dams in Africa. "We may have learned a little bit, but not enough to make things better for average people." The IRN's Pottinger says the dam lobby often labels concerned...
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