Export Credits Guarantee Department
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The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) is a department of the British government. It is an export credit agency, which means that 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 links
- [Export Credits Guarantee Department] official website
- [The UK Export Credit Guarantee Department: Corruption and the Case for Reform] UNICORN, Cardiff University, June 2002
- [Corner House: UK, ECGD and anti-corruption]
- [Mark Thomas finds corruption sadly unregulated] Mark Thomas, The New Statesman, 1 January 2005
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