(March 30, 2005) The Africa Commission report could mark the beginning of the end of Africa’s decline but there is no quick way back up.
Forget forgiveness: make the looters pay
(May 24, 2005) An odious debts challenge is one way African governments can hold both Western creditors and corrupt African officials to account.
Down and out! Who broke Africa?
(March 24, 2005) The African development conundrum: Western donors and aid agencies compound Africa’s problems because their approach is ‘leader-centred’.
Poverty, AIDS and war: the everyday tsunami
(March 1, 2005) The rapid and massive mobilization of aid for countries affected by the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami disaster stands in stark contrast to the amount of global attention and resources given to crises that are less visible but equally as deadly in Africa, writes Ann-Louise Colgan this week for the US-based Africa Action advocacy group.
Aid and development
(February 22, 2005) MotherJones.com contributor Onnesha Roychoudhuri poses an interesting question for international lending agencies: What incentive do "lending agencies have, in their current form, to eradicate poverty?
Big plans for Africa are an old story
(February 10, 2005) So dear old Bob Geldof is profoundly bored with Africa. Or at least he’s bored with Africa’s slow pace of change.
Dealing the debt
(January 27, 2005) As the ‘Make Poverty History’ lobby takes up a new call for redistribution between the first and third worlds Jon Harle wonders what part debt actually plays in poverty.
Time to find embezzled millions: opinion
(January 18, 2005) Money embezzled and hidden in foreign banks by African government officials is a potential new source of funds for the continent, a US-based academic has suggested.
Food aid exposes the West’s uncharitable charity
(January 15, 2005) If nothing else, the recent Indian Ocean tsunami disaster should draw attention to that other giant wave damaging Asia’s shores, the one made of all the cut-price food western countries dump on them.
The dictatorship of debt: The World Bank and Haiti
(January 14, 2005) The World Bank has announced it would release $73 million in cash to the government of Haiti. For Haiti to get that cash it had to pay $52 million in outstanding arrears.
Haiti: A ravaged land more bleak
(December 26, 2004) International groups spent millions of dollars to plant trees in Haiti but failed to slow the deforestation that leads to floods like the one that killed 3,000 people in Gonaives, writes Susannah A. Nesmith in the Miami Herald.
US Congress challenges World Bank and Asian Development Bank support for Nam Theun 2 dam
(October 8, 2004) There is no evidence that the government [of Lao PDR] has the capacity to manage the significant economic, social and environmental risks of
the project.
Total debt forgiveness or default the only options for Africa
(August 2, 2004) Sub-Saharan Africa now owes $201 billion in international debts. Africa will not develop with these unending obstacles and more aid, and therefore debt and interest obligations, are exacerbating the problem.
Enforcing the law on overseas corruption offences: towards a model for excellence
(July 24, 2004) A discussion paper that looks at why enforcement of overseas corruption offences involving British companies and individuals under the UK’s anti-corruption legislation is crucial to the international fight against corruption.
Powell urges world to aid Haiti’s government
(July 20, 2004) While U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the international community to rally behind Haiti’s new government, Haiti’s Prime Minister Gerard Latortue said no one would dare& use funds for objectives other than aid.
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