(December 12, 2007) The Nigerian government has cancelled a $1.1 million contract with Siemens pending an investigation into bribery allegations.

(December 12, 2007) Angel Gurria, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), says governments need to do much more in the fight against international corruption. Speaking at a conference in Rome last month to mark the 10th anniversary of the OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention, created to outlaw international bribery, Mr. Gurria expressed concern that "some countries are still holding back on implementing the Convention" and "have almost no investigations," and "have brought no cases to court."

(December 12, 2007) Passed by U.S. Congress three decades ago in the wake of the Watergate scandal, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has become a powerful tool in the last five years for prosecuting domestic and overseas companies suspected of bribing foreign officials to secure business.

(December 12, 2007) Concerns about the status of Fiji’s current governing power have prompted some analysts to warn lenders they should beware of dealing with the country’s self-declared leader and his administration, who rule without having been democratically elected by the citizens of Fiji.

(December 1, 2007) Few events in the life of a society are as heady as the ouster of a long-standing dictatorial or corrupt regime. In the euphoria that typically follows this kind of nation building, the new government will want to expunge all vestiges of the old regime – personnel, laws, decrees and offensive policies.

(November 27, 2007) There is a growing body of scholarship that attempts to identify workable mechanisms to enable sovereigns to repudiate ‘odious’ sovereign debt – obligations incurred by sovereign regimes that provide no corresponding benefit to the sovereign debtor itself.

(November 27, 2007) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s outspoken criticism of China’s human-rights record will not hurt Canadian business opportunities, say Canada’s business leaders; a new survey finds big business supports Harper’s stance and believes it will produce benefits in the long-run.

(November 20, 2007) This provocative paper is sure to raise the ire of a civil society that wants Third World debts canceled because of their illegitimacy. But it won’t make the lenders who want "no fault" debt forgiveness (courtesy of Northern taxpayers) happy either. Instead, authors Ben-Shahar and Gulati push the legal envelope of "how to" resolve the Third World debt quagmire and in doing so, empower odious debt advocates with more legal fight than ever before.

(November 20, 2007) The World Bank’s veto of a $232 million loan to the Philippines suggests a continued divide over corruption issues within the organization, The Wall Street Journal

(November 20, 2007) This provocative paper is sure to raise the ire of a civil society that wants Third World debts canceled because of their illegitimacy. But it won’t make the lenders who want "no fault" debt forgiveness (courtesy of Northern taxpayers) happy either. Instead, authors Ben-Shahar and Gulati push the legal envelope of "how to" resolve the Third World debt quagmire and in doing so, empower odious debt advocates with more legal fight than ever before.