(January 20, 2007) The common albeit old-fashioned assumption about the relationship between business and the environment is that they are at best separate concerns, often incompatible if not conflicting. China provides a very good demonstration of the opposite being true.
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Odious debt wears two faces: Systemic illegitimacy, problems and opportunities in traditional odious debt conceptions in globali
(January 17, 2007) This paper examines the way that the traditional notion of odious debt as a method of repudiating sovereign debt may undergo a conceptual revolution, as it changes focus from the illegitimacy of governments obtaining loans, to the illegitimacy of the systems through which such loans are made and enforced generally.
A critique of the odious debt doctrine
(January 17, 2007) Defenders of the odious debt doctrine, which bars creditors from collecting sovereign debts that financed the personal consumption of former dictators, argue that this rule would benefit populations following dictatorships and discourage would-be dictators from staging coups in the first place. We show that optimism about the doctrine is based on unrealistic assumptions about the motives and practices of dictators. With more realistic assumptions, the odious debt doctrine.
Odious debt wears two faces: Systemic illegitimacy, problems and opportunities in traditional odious debt conceptions in globali
(January 17, 2007) This paper examines the way that the traditional notion of odious debt as a method of repudiating sovereign debt may undergo a conceptual revolution, as it changes focus from the illegitimacy of governments obtaining loans, to the illegitimacy of the systems through which such loans are made and enforced generally.
Groups protest Blair’s decision to drop top fraud probe
(January 17, 2007) Earlier this week, 140 international charities, churches and NGOs sent a written petition to British Prime Minister Tony Blair demanding that he reopen a corruption probe into a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Indian High Court orders top investigation agency probe of SNC Lavalin case
(January 17, 2007) The Kerala High Court in south-western India has directed the country’s top investigation agency to look into a corruption scandal concerning a years’ old government electricity contract awarded to a Canadian construction firm.
China’s ‘cancer villages’ pay price
(January 17, 2007) The small hamlet of Shangba is a tiny jumbled collection of houses sitting in the lush green paddy fields and hills of southern China.
Shandong farmers use water for drinking and irrigation from a river as black as ink
(January 17, 2007) First part in a series of articles on China’s pollution crisis. Hundreds of thousands of farmers must use filthy water for drinking and irrigation. The economies of entire farming and fishing villages have been destroyed. Authorities do not seem concerned and do not stop the pollution or help locals whilst local governments are more interested in increasing industrial developments.
Beijing rudely awakened from green dream
(January 17, 2007) China’s resolve to abandon its decades-old habit of pursuing economic growth at any cost and instead promote energy conservation and environmental protection has stumbled because of resistance from development-minded local officials and powerful interest groups.
Protest letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair concerning BAE Systems Plc
(January 15, 2007) International charities, churches and NGOs petition Prime Minister Blair to reopen a corruption probe into a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Sea waters ‘heavily polluted’
(January 15, 2007) Marine pollution has worsened in the past year, especially in the shallow waters off the coast, said the Beijing oceanic authority on Friday.
Salt forces S. China cities to go upstream for water
(January 15, 2007) Salty tap water that affects up to 50 million people has forced the Asian gambling hub Macau and its sister city Zhuhai to hastily build a pipeline to access water further upstream, a water official said on Monday.
Offline library 2007
(January 15, 2007) Beijing gets tough with penalties for polluters, by Shi Jiangtao, SCMP, Jan. 11, 2007 Approval suspended for new projects as cities, power firms break environment laws.
Northeast villagers to air grievances about Vietnamese dams
(January 14, 2007) Villagers said that more than 60 hectares in Ratanakkiri province, Lumphat and Kon Mom districts alone were destroyed by flood, and hundreds of villagers have abandoned their homes.
China cracks the whip on polluters
(January 14, 2007) China has cracked the whip to punish environment polluters as it struggled but failed to meet energy cuts and pollution goals over recent years.
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