(May 13, 2005) According to a report by the Uganda Debt Network odious debt is "hampering" Uganda’s rate of development and expenditure on "essential services for poverty-reducing sectors" such as primary education, primary health care, and others.
Philippines urged to adopt zero tolerance policy toward corruption
(May 12, 2005) The European Union has called for “zero tolerance” toward corruption at all levels of Philippine society and “ruthless” application of the law to everyone during the launching of the Office of the Ombudsman’s Corruption Prevention Project.
Philippine president vows to wipe out corruption in 3 years
(May 11, 2005) Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Thursday said she needed three years to win the war against corruption in her country, which she likened to a deadly cancer that the Philippines must immediately cure.
Development banks a US priority, Treasury official says
(May 11, 2005) The Bush administration’s budget request of $1.33 billion to co-fund multilateral development banks (MDBs) would advance reforms aimed at making those banks more effective, a top Treasury Department official says.
Toward a more effective Canadian aid to Africa
(May 10, 2005) Western aid programs are hobbled by two fundamental problems. The first is the failure to distinguish between African governments or leaders and the people. In Africa, governments or leaders have been the problem, not the people
Former officials padded pockets with impunity
(May 10, 2005) Former Argentine government ministers, lawmakers and judges who benefited from graft payments throughout the 1990s could be punished by little more than a slap on the wrist if "secret laws" that permitted the corruption are not revoked.
Africa could gain from Blair’s ‘big lie’
(May 9, 2005) Tony Blair hardly skipped a heartbeat as prime minister last week. A combination of sweet talk, comfortable wallets, and busy cash registers took care of that. Africa got a minuscule gain.
The limits of reform: the Wolfensohn era at the World Bank
(May 9, 2005) With all the hullabaloo generated by the designation of Paul Wolfowitz as his successor, outgoing World Bank President James Wolfensohn’s record in leading the Bank has so far escaped serious scrutiny, claim Walden Bello and Shalmali Guttal in a new report drawn from Bello’s latest book, Dilemmas of Unmaking the American Empire.
African women carry the debt burden
(May 9, 2005) As Mother’s Day, May 8, was being celebrated around the world, the majority of mothers in Africa, who make up over half of the continent’s 680 million people, received neither flowers nor cards from their doting children. In fact, the vast number does not know of the day’s existence, nor even its significance.
Nigerians want war on graft, not words
(May 6, 2005) For many Nigerians, President Olusegun Obasanjo’s war on corruption has been a long time coming, given his promise six years ago to stamp out vice when he took office in 1999. Nothing much, they have noted, has happened, until now.
War on corruption: is Obasanjo capitulating?
(May 2, 2005) This time around in Nigeria’s war on corruption, it is important to hold the government’s feet to the fire every step of the way and every hour of the day.
Let the president dance naked
(May 2, 2005) “In Nigeria’s terrible state of discounted morality, extirpating the virus of corruption will take more than stepping on people’s toes . . . The proper place to start is by going to the basics.”
In Nigeria, where money talks, reform is the word
(May 1, 2005) President begins to crack down on a culture of corruption; series of senior officials forced out.
Pampered MPs worked only 57 days last year: Kenya
(April 30, 2005) Endemic corruption: Kenyan MPs earn $8,000 a month, still want a raise.
Has Obasanjo’s revolution commenced?
(April 29, 2005) “The tragedy of Nigeria is our collective amnesia, which has bred a horde of cynics who are fixated on the anti-Obasanjo prism. Many Nigerians have chosen to forget where we were when Obasanjo assumed power.”
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