(May 29, 2001) Dr. Keith Martin, Member of Parliament and Official Opposition Critic for Latin America and Africa today asked the Minister Responsible for CIDA to release the environmental impact assessment report on the Chalillo dam project in Belize.
CIDA Minister responds to Keith Martin, M.P.: Letter
(May 28, 2001) Maria Minna continues to defend CIDA secrecy.
Letter to Fortis CEO Stanley Marshall
(May 23, 2001) Letter to Fortis President from BACONGO, Action Environment, Humber Environment Action Group, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club of Canada.
Abuja to seek further debt reduction from Paris Club
(May 17, 2001) Nigeria is to seek more substantive debt relief from the Paris Club of private sector creditors, according to Philip Asiodu, Chief Economic Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
International Conference on Sustainable Debt Strategy: Summary of Proceedings
(May 17, 2001) As part of a broad framework for debt reduction and sustainability, the report calls on the international community to cancel Nigeria’s odious debts and reform the global financial structures that allow such debts to proliferate.
Canadian firm under fire over Belize dam
(May 17, 2001) Probe International and other environmentalists take their concerns about Fortis, Inc.’s proposed Chalillo dam to Parliament Hill.
Indonesia to pay reduced claim to U.S. in long-disputed overseas insurance case
(May 11, 2001) Indonesia’s government decided to pay a controversial claim to the overseas risk-insurance arm of the U.S. government, ending a long dispute impairing relations between the two countries.
International scientists issue warning to Canadian multinational
(April 25, 2001) Canadian hydro dam threatens Central American wildlife. Some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists and wildlife experts have joined the campaign against a hydro scheme that threatens endangered Central American wildlife.
The illegal foreign debt: the value and likelihood of a legal ruling
(April 21, 2001) A recent Argentinian court decision on foreign debt sends a clear message to the citizens of highly indebted countries that international creditors were responsible for ensuring foreign loans were not used for the interests and needs of the state.
Indonesia clashes with IMF over plan to fire top bankers
(April 9, 2001) Indonesia insists on a key change to the central bank law allowing it to fire the entire board, setting itself on a possible collision course with an already frustrated International Monetary Fund.
Ban demanded on overseas bribes
(April 4, 2001) Britain’s failure to introduce clear legislation to outlaw bribery and corruption in international business was castigated yesterday by a committee of MPs as a “shameful situation” that damaged the reputation of the City of London and the country abroad.
Still Waiting for the Jubilee: Pragmatic Solutions for the Third World Debt Crisis
(April 1, 2001) David Roodman calls for debt relief strategies focused on reducing rich-country import barriers, scaling back export credit agencies and creating a sovereign bankruptcy panel to cancel “odious debts.”
Looting Indonesia: The energy brokers ‘warm-up’ for California
(March 28, 2001) Micheal Billington argues that American energy companies profited from the “cronyism and corruption” of the Suharto government, and the Indonesian public is now paying the price.
Oil, Sanctions, Debt and the Future
(March 11, 2001) Abbas Alnasrawi is Professor of Economics at
the University of Vermont. This paper was first presented at a
conference organised by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq.
Indonesia’s odious debts
(March 8, 2001) Probe International’s Patricia Adams called to Indonesia to talk odious debts.
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