(March 7, 2005) Argentina had been painfully slow to restructure its debts. Because it held off deciding to default for so long, the decision – when it finally came – hit the country hard.
Blair targets corruption in Africa plan
(March 5, 2005) Tony Blair will next week demand a radical shake-up of the west’s approach to the world’s poorest continent when his year-long Africa Commission calls for a doubling of aid, the dismantling of trade barriers, the writing off of debts and immediate action to stamp out
corruption.
Spotlight falls on corruption of Africa
(March 5, 2005) Rather than putting the blame solely on African governments, which has been the common tendency of some western governments, the Commission for Africa report makes a significant shift in the other direction.
Fiscal crisis takes a ‘creative’ turn in the Philippines
(March 4, 2005) A Filipino senator this week suggested the government look at Argentina’s model of debt default as one of a number of ways to ease the country’s ballooning national debt of P3.36 trillion ($60 billion).
Senators ask government to address P3-T debt
(March 4, 2005) Two lawmakers called on the Philippine government to ease borrowing from other countries and mortgage banks to address the country’s P3.81-trillion debt.
Why Kenya deserves debt relief
(March 3, 2005) We spend millions – multiples of healthcare costs servicing debts while our sick languish at home with bare cupboards, dirty drinking water and no medicine. And yet, we are the norm.
Villar wants debt relief council formed
(March 3, 2005) The chairman of the Philippine Senate committee on finance has proposed the creation of a “council for debt relief” to tackle plans to lower the government’s outstanding debt of P3.36 trillion.
Company faces bribery charges
(March 2, 2005) The Italian company Impregilo SpA will be tried in the Lesotho High Court in April on five charges of bribery relating to the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Philippines follows Argentina’s debt path
(March 2, 2005) “Unless another large capital loss is appealing, investors should consider Argentina’s default as an example of what can happen in other emerging-market countries, and not as an isolated and resolved event.”
Government debt manageable
(March 2, 2005) A press statement issued by the Philippines Malacañan Palace claims the government can manage the country’s ballooning national debt.
Do ‘odious debts’ free over-indebted states from the debt trap?
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KAIROS analysis of debt recommendations in Commission for Africa Report
(April 1, 2005) Possible actions in the report’s Annex 9 are closer to the actual proposals being debated by G7 finance ministers: some additional debt service relief until 2015 and reinforcement of IMF and World Bank conditionality for African countries.
Our common interest
(March 1, 2005) British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa report.
Poverty, AIDS and war: the everyday tsunami
(March 1, 2005) The rapid and massive mobilization of aid for countries affected by the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami disaster stands in stark contrast to the amount of global attention and resources given to crises that are less visible but equally as deadly in Africa, writes Ann-Louise Colgan this week for the US-based Africa Action advocacy group.
Taming the monster called corruption
(February 27, 2005) Nigeria’s crusade against corruption got a rude shock when Transparency International accused the country of being on the lead of African nations allegedly slowing down the fight against corruption in the continent.
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