(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.
Indictment v. Acres International
(March 6, 2001) Court indictment and charges of of bribery against Canadian company, Acres International Limited, in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Crown v. Lahmeyer International GmbH
(March 6, 2001) Court indictment and charges of 12 counts of bribery against German engineering company, Lahmeyer International GmbH, in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Indictment – The Crown versus Jacobus Michiel Du Plooy
(March 5, 2001) View report
To drop or not to drop?
(May 1, 2001) Tim Allen and Diana Weinhold explore the arguments of William Easterly, a leading economist at the World Bank, who investigated the claims and proposals of Jubilee 2000 and found them to be wanting.
Domestic crony capitalism and international fickle capital: is there a connection?
(March 1, 2001) The director of the Project on Corruption and Globalization at the Brookings Institute examines the connection between domestic crony capitalism and dependence on volatile international capital flows such as international bank loans.
The concept of odious debt and its relevance to Indonesia
(February 23, 2001) For creditors to expect any protection for their loans to foreign states, their loans must be utilized for the needs and interests of the state; otherwise the loans belonged to the power which contracted them, and were therefore, debts of the regime.
No sweet fruit for the majority!
(February 21, 2001) Yet another budget that prioritises the Apartheid debt ahead of the poor!
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