(April 14, 2006) Italy’s biggest construction company Impregilo has lost an appeal to challenge the right of the high court in Lesotho to try it for bribing officials to win a major dam contract there.
Reaction to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s remarks on corruption today
(April 11, 2006) Jubilee USA and East Timor and Indonesia Action Networks challenge Wolfowitz to address roots of corruption by canceling Indonesia’s Suharto-era debt.
Good governance and development: a time for action
(April 11, 2006) "Corruption is not just a problem for developing countries to deal with. . . . Indeed, every corrupt transaction has, unfortunately, at least two parties, and very often the bribe givers are from developed countries."
The World Bank weeds out corruption
(April 8, 2006) Will it touch the roots?
Australia reaps Iraqi harvest
(April 4, 2006) United Nations sanctions against Saddam Hussein may have failed to end his regime but they succeeded in enriching both the Iraqi dictator and corporations able to manipulate the scandal-ridden world body’s Oil-for-Food program.
If you think the Third World debt crisis was solved last summer at the G8, think again
(March 31, 2006) There’s much more to be done on debt relief.
Jubilee USA welcomes World Bank debt cancellation accord
(March 30, 2006) Debt relief advocate, Jubilee USA Network, has welcomed approval of debt cancellation by the World Bank Executive Board for some impoverished countries, and urged the Bank to remove deadly delays to debt cancellation for additional impoverished countries.
Still waiting for debt relief
(March 28, 2006) Last July, debt relief was all the rage. Fast forward to the present. Public attention has shifted elsewhere, the G8 deal has only been partially implemented, and much more work remains to be done.
Dam shady business
(March 26, 2006) Michiel du Plooy must be a nervous man. The Free State businessman is expected to be a key witness in the next corruption case to be launched by the Lesotho prosecuting authority.
Lift burden of debt from neighbors
(March 22, 2006) Florida: The time has come for Floridians to talk seriously about the debt burden our Latin American neighbors face.
Experts urge US government to cancel Liberia’s odious debt
(March 15, 2006) Debt campaigners lobbied the US government for the 100 percent cancellation of Liberia’s odious debts in the lead-up to an address to the US Congress by Liberia’s new president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first woman president.
The corruption crusader
(March 13, 2006) The new head of the World Bank is ruffling feathers, but his intolerance of crooked politicians should be applauded, writes Salil Tripathi.
Paying for apartheid twice (excerpts only)
(March 10, 2006) This report estimates “apartheid-caused debt” at UKP28 billion. That is the UKP11 billion that South Africa borrowed to maintain apartheid, and the UKP17 billion that the neighbouring states borrowed because of apartheid destabilisation and aggression. This is 74% of the present regional debt of UKP38 billion.
The loans of mass destruction
(March 8, 2006) A few weeks ago, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein’s weapons arsenal: ‘I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council.’
Pinochet’s wealth: fake identity also hid fortune in Chile
(March 8, 2006) While Chile battled recession in the early 80s, General Augusto Pinochet was using a false name to hide his fortune in Chilean banks.
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