Export Credits Guarantee Department
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The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) is a department of the British government. It provides 'export credits guarantees' to industry - it underwrites that the countries they are selling to will be able to pay. It reports to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
External link
- Official site (http://www.ecgd.gov.uk/)
- UNICORN, Cardiff University, June 2002, "The UK Export Credit Guarantee Department: Corruption and the Case for Reform" (http://www.againstcorruption.org/reports/2002-06-C-UKECGD.doc)
- Corner House: UK, ECGD and anti-corruption (http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/subject/corruption/)
- Mark Thomas, The New Statesman, 1 January 2005, "Mark Thomas finds corruption sadly unregulated" (http://www.newstatesman.com/Economy/200501010002)