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32 CARVING UP THE CONGO CON IN THE CONGO – THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF THE WORLD BANK’S INDUSTRIAL LOGGING MODEL
CARVING UP THE CONGO 33 INDUSTRIAL LOGGING IS SUSTAINING CORRUPTION IN THE DRC In an environment of endemic corruption, logging companies inevitably operate beyond the rule of law. In the DRC, the logging industry continues to feed the networks of corruption that are obstacles to genuine development. Through support for an extractive industry-based model of development, donor countries and agencies such as the World Bank are effectively undermining their own rhetoric on establishing good governance and alleviating poverty. In 2003 the Extractive Industries Review (EIR), commissioned by the World Bank, acknowledged the significant economic, social and environmental risks of extractive industries. It recommended that the World Bank shape and sequence its interventions according to the quality of governance in the host country. Governance criteria can include, amongst other things: the quality of the rule of law; the risk of conflict; human rights protection; recognition of and willingness to protect the rights of indigenous peoples; capacity to mitigate and manage the impacts of extractive industries; and, government capacity and willingness to publish and manage revenues transparently and ensure effective revenue sharing. 145 ‘It is not accidental that no efforts have been made to construct the fundamentals of a regime to combat corruption and illicit finance schemes in the DRC. The DRC’s history is one of rulers aspiring to hold and retain a monopoly of power. Salaries of DRC officials have, in practice, been regularly and heavily supplemented by revenues from bribery.’ 149 Report for USAID, 2003 Clearly the DRC has governance problems: the Government’s institutional capacity and its ability to manage revenues, including those generated by industrial logging, remain weak. Control over natural resources has been at the heart of nearly a decade of war in the DRC and serious questions have been raised about the role of foreign companies in the extraction and export of the country’s resources. 146 Instability plagued the transitional government and violent conflict continues in parts of the country. 147 Corruption as a strategy for survival among low- and middle-ranking law enforcement civil servants (eg the acceptance of bribes and lack of enforcement of regulations) fuels and is fuelled by the highlevel corruption practised by the country’s political elite whose power is based on profit from natural resources such as forests. 148 ©<strong>Greenpeace</strong>/Reynaers
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