The Kenyan government has found Karuturi Global Ltd, the world's biggest producer of cut roses, guilty of tax evasion. This is the first time an African government has brought a large multinational company to court for transfer mispricing through a fully public process.
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World Bank’s board should support an internal investigation into allegations of abuse linked to a World Bank project in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said today..
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An investigation into a World Bank-funded project in Ethiopia following accusations from refugees that the bank is funding a programme that forced people off their land..
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The article by Metasebia Tadesse (‘How Ethiopians benefit from Indian (and other) land investors’, The Hindu, 27 Feb), in response to Ashish Kothari’s article on the subject (19 Feb), is a typical case of a defensive government fudging the facts. .
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