(April 7, 2009) Danielle Boudreau’s “The Dictatorship of Debt” is showing at Montreal’s Atwater Library Threatre on Thursday April 9th at 8pm.
Today’s Third World stimulus packages will be tomorrow’s odious debts
(March 31, 2009) In the frenzy to resuscitate the failing global economy, the World Bank and IMF are planning to rescue the Third World’s poor, whom they describe as the innocent bystanders to a problem that originated in the rich north.
Chapter 14 – Corruption in high and not-so high places
(March 19, 2009) A year after phillipine President Marcos and his first lady were forced from office, the U.S.
Chapter 11 – The business of the state
(March 19, 2009) Few know with confidence how the universe came into being but if God had said `let there be light’ while in Colombia, He would not have had enough money left for the rest of creation. Because the truth is that in a country where there are projects which have cost a lot, few have cost as much as the expansion of the electric sector during the last ten years.
Chapter 9 – Givers and takers
(March 18, 2009) Most taxpayers in the rich industrialized countries believe, as the Pearson Commission inquiry into foreign aid believed, that "it is only right for those who have to share with those who have not." Much of the Western World’s sharing, though, has been in the form of loans, not gifts. The Third World has borrowed about one-third of the $400 billion in foreign aid that it has received from the rich countries’ national aid agencies.
Chapter 8 – The new mercantilists
(March 18, 2009) ONE YEAR BEFORE MEXICO touched off the Third World’s debt crisis by suspending payments to foreign creditors, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rose proudly to announce in the House of Commons that her government had just committed millions to the Mexican government to build the $2 billion Sicartsa steel plant:
Chapter 3 – The Economy
(March 18, 2009) The Environment Strikes Back: The Economy
Introduction – The Tragedies of the Commons
The Tragedies of the Commons
Acknowledgements
(March 18, 2009) Friends and colleagues have been exceptionally generous in helping me finish this book. Margaret Barber deserves special thanks for her painstaking research, and for her good cheer throughout. I am also especially grateful to Susan Fitzmaurice for her artistic judgement and for her commitment to the complicated task of producing this book. Both made an otherwise stressful job a joy.
Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption, And the Third World’s Environmental Legacy
(March 18, 2009) We’ve all heard of the Third World’s debt crisis, of hopelessly poor nations unable to pay their debts, and of the human suffering and environmental consequences of their desperate predicament. Amid emotional calls from some to forgive the debt outright come the sober solutions from bankers and bureaucrats, with their seemingly unending stream of Brady and Baker Plans, and bewildering variants of them.
Where are Africa’s Obamas?
(March 16, 2009) The president’s fairness and honesty should serve as a powerful example to the continent’s leaders.
Top Philippine Graft-Buster Won’t Quit Over World Bank Scandal
(March 2, 2009) The Philippines’ top graft-buster on Monday defied mounting calls for her resignation for failing to act over a multimillion dollar corruption involving a World Bank-funded road project.
Applied Legal History: Demystifying the Doctrine of Odious Debts
(March 1, 2009) “Odious debts” have been the subject of debate in academic, activist, and policy circles in recent years. The term refers to the debts of a nation that a despotic leader incurs against the interests of the populace. When the despot is overthrown, the new government—understandably—does not wish to repay creditors who helped prop up the despot…
G8 : Some give, plenty of take
(July 16, 2009) The media has presented the G8’s L’Alqila summit promise of US$20 billion for food security and agricultural development in Africa as good news, but a closer look at the figures shows that G8 countries actually take much more out than they put into the continent, writes Yash Tandon.
The World Bank and Satyam: A match made in heaven
(January 14, 2009) The cooked books at Satyam rocked India’s internationally-praised IT industry. But the problems at Satyam have also made their way onto the shores of World Bank – causing the agency to bar the company from bidding on projects for eight years.
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