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One BIG PIG goes to market: a cautionary tale

March 2009

A comic look at the basics of the European Investment Bank, the world's biggest public financial institution. This is the first in a series of cartoons produced for the Counter Balance campaign.

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On a wing and a prayer: a bird's eye view of dams

March 2009

Ahead of the International Day of Action for Rivers in March that opened the 2009 alternative World Water Forum in Istanbul, Counter Balance presents some of the bird-brain thinking that accompanies the construction of big dams in the developing world.

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Min(d)ing its own business: the EIB approach to exploitation

October 2009

How does the mining sector work in Africa? Counter Balance produced another cartoon in its series on the EIB in the Global South, this time about the impacts of resource extraction in developing countries.

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Just like Haven? European Investment Bank illicit financial flows through tax havens

November 2009

The cartoon is part of Counter Balance's campaign against EIB loans enabling tax havens, launched in May 2009.

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