(November 17, 2008) The official overseeing an audit of Ecuador’s foreign debt said his committee found evidence of abuses and irregularities tied to almost all of the country’s bonds and will recommend a default on $10.3 billion in national debt.

(November 17, 2008) Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s left-wing president, has heightened fears that the Andean nation will default on parts of its $10bn (£6.8bn) foreign debt, saying an internal audit due this week will determine if the debt is “illegitimate”.

(September 10, 2008) The relationship between the sovereign debt of developing countriesand the protection of social rights in those countries has received a lot of attention from an economic, political and moral perspective, but relatively little has been written about the legal side of this relationship.

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(August 7, 2008) The World Bank convened the roundtable in response to feedback from civil society groups (CSOs) to its September 2007 discussion paper, “Odious Debt: Some Considerations.”

(August 6, 2008) The president of Bangladesh this month appointed a three-member Truth and Accountability Commission in an effort to claw back ill-gotten gains from corrupt businessmen and politicians who could receive clemency if they confess their wrongdoing and refund money obtained illegally. The country’s military-backed government, which launched a nationwide anti-graft campaign after taking power in January 2007, hopes the commission will help clear a massive backlog of corruption cases, Independent Online reports.