Multilateral Development Bank Accountability: Who Benefits?

1994年，世界银行通过了一个“外部问责机制”，以评估世界各地人民关于他们受到世界银行资助的发展项目不利影响的说法。在十年内，这一机制将成为全球问责制的典范。非洲、亚洲、欧洲和美洲开发银行采用了这一办法，现已提出了数百项索赔要求。在探讨这些外部问责机制的创建、扩散和运作时，本项目调查了谁从中受益：受项目影响的人、世行或世行成员国，一些人推动了更大的问责，一些人反对侵犯其主权借款权。

In 1994 the World Bank adopted an "external accountability mechanism" to assess claims by people all over the world that they were negatively affected by Bank financed development projects. Within a decade this mechanism would become a global model of accountability. Adopted by the African, Asian, European and Inter-American Development Banks, hundreds of claims have now been filed. In probing the creation, proliferation and operations of these external accountability mechanisms, this project investigates who benefits from them: project affected people, the Banks, or the Banks' member states, some who pushed for greater accountability, and some who opposed these infringements on their sovereign right to borrow.