(July 12, 2006) Activists worry that “the failure” of G8 member states to renew existing commitments to monitoring corruption will undermine negotiations at the forthcoming Conference of the States Parties.
Why foreign aid to Haiti failed
(February 1, 2006) Although it proudly lays claim as the second oldest republic in the Hemisphere, and the only nation whose slave population defeated a colonial power to become free,Haiti is, and has been, among the worst governed and most undemocratic states. Few places in the world, and no places in the Western Hemisphere, are poorer than Haiti.This paper2 explains why, after consuming billions in foreign aid over three decades, and hundreds of millions specifically for governance and democratization programs, not to mention billions for other programs, Haiti remains politically dysfunctional and impoverished.
Winner-take-all the bane of Africa
(August 4, 2005) The prospect of turning Africa around with aid and debt relief seem at best problematic, at worst a pipedream.
Enough handouts for Africa
(July 12, 2005) Africa deserves more than the West’s charity. Africa needs a hand up, not a never-ending series of handouts that do little more than play to Africa’s weaknesses and provide the donors with a false sense of gratification.
Saviour Blair makes African professionals wince
(July 4, 2005) No to Begging! No to Foreign Aid!
The failure of altruism
(July 2, 2005) Well-intentioned efforts have failed to improve life for most Africans.
Increasing aid goes hand in hand with fighting corruption, says Oxfam
(June 30, 2005) In the lead-up to the G8 summit, African organizations and international aid agencies are calling on world leaders to see international aid as a weapon in the fight against corruption rather than an excuse to stall on increasing aid pledges.
Democracy not basis for World Bank funds
(June 16, 2005) Foreign financial assistance is not based on sound economic policies or genuine democratisation principles and inevitably contradicts sound nationalistic economic policies, claims an editorial by New Vision,Uganda’s largest daily.
A truckload of nonsense
(June 14, 2005) The G8 plan to save Africa comes with conditions that make it little more than an extortion racket.
Grant for cancer centre was SNC-Lavalin’s commitment
(June 12, 2005) Was there a commitment from the Canadian company, SNC-Lavalin, to provide a grant of Rs. 98 crores to the Malabar Cancer Centre; and, if yes, why was it allowed to wriggle out of the obligation?
It’s tyranny stupid!
(June 6, 2005) There’s a puzzling idea doing the rounds on Africa. It occasionally surfaces in Tony Blair’s speeches as Britain gears up for a G8 summit at which he will be pushing for debt write-off and a doubling in aid to African countries.
Toward a more effective Canadian aid to Africa
(May 10, 2005) Western aid programs are hobbled by two fundamental problems. The first is the failure to distinguish between African governments or leaders and the people. In Africa, governments or leaders have been the problem, not the people
Hope is hard to find in Haiti anymore
(April 19, 2005) Modest hope . . . has been replaced by increased hunger, chaos and despair, and everyone except the elite up the hill in Petionville, guarded from harm by ex-military, lives in fear.
Haiti needs freedom from debt, now!
(April 14, 2005) Haiti’s new debt was accrued largely under the father-and-son Duvalier regime; steeped in the blessings of the Cold War, they faced no questions when it came to raking in manifestly odious loans, writes Jubilee South.
PRESS RELEASE World Bank dam will generate debt burden for Laotians
(April 1, 2005) The World Bank’s decision to finance the US$1.2 billion Nam Theun 2 hydro project will become an intractable debt burden for Laotians in years to come, warns Probe International, a Canadian-based foreign aid watchdog.
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