Governments in rich countries demand that regimes in poor countries clean up their acts and eradicate corruption if they are to be given aid, and yet the governments of rich countries turn a blind eye when western multinational companies bribe on a huge scale to win contracts in poor countries, with the financial backing of those same governments. The Corner House, a think tank campaigning for environmental and social justice, has examined nine projects which Britain's export credits guarantee department (ECGD) has backed in the past two decades and concludes that there has been "a series of institutional practices within the ECGD that have permitted corrupt practice to go unpunished". For instance, Corner House believes little has been done to investigate the case of the Lesotho Highlands Water project. The ECGD's support to four British companies amounted to £215m. But, according to Corner House, it continued to give this support even after warning signs of possible corruption first surfaced in 1994.