(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.
Corruption made-in-west: Wolfowitz
(May 24, 2006) "For every bribe-taker, there’s a bribe-giver, and often that comes from a developed country." – Paul Wolfowitz.
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.
BAE ordered to name payment agents
(March 17, 2006) BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest and most influential arms company, has been ordered to reveal the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.al the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.
Agency to boost anti-corruption
(March 17, 2006) The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) offers UK exports insurance against non-payment.
Significant victory for the fight against corruption
(March 15, 2006) Export Credit Guarantee Department re-improves its anti-corruption procedures.
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.
Antiwar activists detained at House Appropriations Committee hearing
(March 9, 2006) Two activists from Voices for Creative Nonviolence, interrupted a House Appropriations Committee hearing to call for an end to the funding of the war against Iraq, as well as the cancellation of odious debts incurred by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
World Bank and other bureaucratic failures in foreign aid
(May 8, 2006) Many Americans, shocked at the United Nations oil-for-food scandal, realize that the mismanagement of government aid is not merely a phenomenon which occurs in Washington and State capitals but internationally.
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.’
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