Comparing The World Bank And The Chixoy Dam

The Grand Coulee Dam, located in Eastern Washington, was one of controversy, risk, and a point of no return. While the water captured made the desert area blossom in agriculture and it powered some large cities, it created a sense of accomplishment, that humans can control Mother Nature. While many people were very excited for this new construction – which gives power and resources - at the time, some thought it should not be allowed, they are not proud of containing the Columbia River. In this analysis, I am going to focus on the economic and social effects that the Grand Coulee Dam created in its build.

Three factors define the success of any project; these are time, cost, and quality (Wysocki and RK 2013: 4). This paper identifies three main facets of project management that were inappropriately implemented, namely; Resourcing, Stakeholder Management, and Risk Management and how their improper implementation led to the violation of the three constraints (i.e. time, cost, and quality).

saw this as crossing his authority. He then proceeded to have his gang members beat up the resident in charge of the operation. This violence is seen as typical in society’s view of gangs. Before I read this book, I thought that gangs would terrorize people in the projects on a daily basis. Sudhir showed me that the violence is not what I had thought, but more of the opposite. From a sociological view, I see this violence from the conflict perspective. The two parties involved in the conflict, the gang and the residents, are in conflicting struggle for power. The residents are struggling for the power to be able to live a somewhat normal life in their standards, while the gang wants to be in control of everything that happens at the projects. This conflict stems from the conflict perspective of

On a historic level, I learned about the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990’s. The war was fought between the rebels and the government and lasted for over a decade. Numerous attacks on civilians caused many to die, especially parents and families. During this time, orphaned child soldiers were commonly used to fight in the war. Ishmael’s personal history describes these attacks. He describes family members being separated and killed, bodies of the dead, lost children, and a constant state of fear. “The sound of guns was so terrifying that it confused everyone. No one was able to think clearly... Everyone just ran for his or her life. Mothers lost their children, whose confused, sad cries

suddenly, the civilians came without asking and tied them up on the rope. The civilians didn't

Because they are deprived of law, order, and justice, corruption begins to take

Since 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese government have been at war within the southern region of Sudan. This brutal conflict has ravaged the country claiming hundreds of lives and exiling a vast number of the southern Sudanese people. Most of these outcasts were young men aging between five and twelve who were tending cattle to return home to see their village being attacked and their villagers being killed. These boys fled not knowing what they would encounter on the journey to escape the violence in their own country. Hungry, frightened, and weak from their long and hellish journey, the boys finally reached refugee camps outside of Sudan. Even though many young men were killed on their multiple

Building the dam cost the city of San Francisco more than $5 billion in today's money.

Political Corruption and the fall of government are one of the main reasons why societies fail.

Nearly two decades later, the nation has brought social issues to the fore but is now in the grips of the Western Hemisphere’s most severe humanitarian crisis and an arresting political impasse between the government and opposition. Through the Fulbright-National Geographic

In Brazil, too, “environmental problems gained new urgency”, and “authorities tried to cover up the disaster”. Moreover, Brazilian news coverage, resembling the Soviet one back when the Chernobyl disaster happened, are also attempting to suggest that the situation is not so awful. The dam disasters in Minas can also be compared to the Aral Sea (“[…] once one of the largest lakes in the world […] shrank to less than 10 percent of its original size, due to the aggressive Soviet construction […]”, and to Lake Baikal “[…] the largest fresh body of water, and once among the cleanest, suffered the construction of factories on its perimeter […]”. Regardless of whether those three incidents were intentional or not, it is clear that they only occurred thanks to

One thing that was interesting was White’s idea that workers dangling from cliffs are much like rock climbers doing the same (p.61). This idea leaves one with the impression that the workers were still very much attuned with nature. Again it circles back to the idea presented in the first chapter, the idea that the river can be understood through the labor of humans. Although the labor drastically altered the river, understanding the river was essential in doing so. The issue that is presented though is that the workers are often overlooked, which seems counteractive if they are the ones truly attuned to the river. Their understanding provided the most important step in making sure the dams were built in ways that were beneficial, both for producing power and maintaining the flow of the river. The centralization of hydrological power under the BPA helped this attitude manifest its self in the Pacific

A major aspect of the dam project was the reservoir to hold the floodwaters and control the release rate. However, the creation of the reservoir flooded a large upper land area requiring the relocation of over 50,000 Nubian residents. The relocating of residents because of dam construction is fairly common, as over ten million residents of China of had to relocate as a result of dams, 1.5 million for the three gorges dam alone. The relocation of the Nubians did have a positive effect over time as their infectious disease rate dropped. Although the relocation did leave them unhappy as they were moved further into the desert. The reservoir also negatively impacted archaeological sites in the area, as they were flooded over.

future when coding, and as a result, we experienced the Year 2000 project (Yaraghi, 2016, para. 3). Combine all the problems with projects and the government 's dependency on contractors who may or may not have ever undertaken a government project before and certainly not at the scale level of some of the projects (Gallagher 2013, para. 5). With public-sector transparency, large-scale government projects are under the microscope and often, information technology is the biggest reason for the failure of projects (Kost & Howard 2014, p. 1). In most cases, a project is at the greatest risk of cancellation during the planning stage and then during the execution stage of the project. Projects that cancel during the planning stage have the least

Some forms include systematic corruption, political instability, organized crime infiltrating government institutions, and different economic problems. After many years of corruption and cronyism led to an uprising backed by citizens, and an election of a new government in 2011. () Since then efforts have been intensified to fight corruption.