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ADB Waters Down Plans to Amend Mistakes in Cambodia
Newly approved plans by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to fix mistakes it made on a $143 million railway project appear to water down recommendations proposed by the Bank’s own review panel, and could impose the costs of the plan on the very families who lost land to the project. The ADB’s independent compliance review panel added the recommendations to a report looking into a Bank project to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. The report said the Bank was to blame for failing to prevent thousands of families from ending up worse off after they were forced to give up all or part of their land. The Bank’s board of directors approved the report—but only after watering down the recommendations…