(September 16, 2005) Public officers who have not declared their wealth may from next week find police officers knocking at their doors, ready to bundle them off to court.
Serious Fraud Office to look into BAE link with Pinochet
(September 16, 2005) The Serious Fraud Office is expected to launch an investigation into disclosures that the arms company BAE secretly paid more than £1m to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Ex-dictator Pinochet escapes prosecution yet again
(September 16, 2005) A day after Chile’s Supreme Court opened the way for a third major trial against the 89-year-old ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, his lawyers won another round in their efforts to protect him from prosecution for human rights abuses by his regime.
Why past efforts at tackling corruption failed, by Akanbi
(September 15, 2005) Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission said lack of political will and inconsistencies in implementing anti-corruption measures were major reasons efforts to curb graft in Nigeria had failed in the past.
The Paris Club debt relief: Matters arising
(September 15, 2005) The debt deal the Paris Club is offering Nigeria is not a relief but an “attempt to relieve us of our resources”.
Detective story that linked £1m Pinochet cash to BAE
(September 15, 2005) US investigators find 100 accounts linked to general; secret payments listed to alleged front companies.
Factors retarding growth of Nigeria’s federal system
(September 14, 2005) “The doctrine of odious debt can help starve autocratic, kleptocratic governments and dismantle out of existence their associated governance structures by reducing the amount of financing available to them.”
The Millennium Development Goals: Meeting Africa’s special needs
(September 12, 2005) In her analysis of the March 2005 UN Millennium Development Goals report, UK and South Africa-based economist and journalist Margaret Legum highlights a report recommendation urging developing countries to “recommit themselves to taking primary responsibility for their own development by strengthening governance, combating corruption and putting in place the policies and investments to drive private-sector-led growth and maximise domestic resources to fund national development strategies.”
Africa: Whatever you thought, think again
(September 8, 2005) Transcript of proceedings, National Geographic / World Bank Special Presentation on Africa, Washington
Malabar Cancer Centre: Government ready for talks
(September 6, 2005) The Electricity Minister says the state government is ready to talk to Canada about a promised grant for the Malabar Cancer Centre, part of the controversial SNC-Lavalin deal.
Bank Heist
(September 1, 2005) Corrupt businesses, politicians, and cronies are stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from the globe’ s poorest people but the World Bank and other MDBs routinely ignore this corruption and capital flight, despite numerous reform efforts.
Minister flays Canadian firm
(September 1, 2005) Aryadan Mohammed, the electricity minister for the small southwest Indian state of Kerala, claims Canada-based engineering and construction firm, SNC-Lavalin, has cheated the people of Kerala of Rs98m, which it had offered for setting up a cancer center in Malabar as part of a Rs3.47bn power contract approved by Kerala’s previous government.
Debt relief as tragedy
(August 29, 2005) “What is beguiling about the debt forgiveness binge is that in order to have it, Nigeria’s debt managers had to unnecessarily put the noose of IMF conditionalities as holy writs and albatrosses around their own necks.”
Government paying P931 million a day in interest ‚Villar
(August 29, 2005) Filipino Senate chairman continues to urge government to exhaust all possible means to drastically reduce the country’s massive debts.
Paying debt ‘honorable thing’ to do
(August 26, 2005) Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said the Philippine government should try to avoid the terms imposed by the International Monetary Fund and deal directly with its creditors.
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