(March 16, 2004) Iraq’s finance minister said Baghdad hoped to finalise a deal to ease its massive debts this year, despite splits among creditors over how much debt relief to grant a country so rich in oil. "The world saw what happened in Iraq: 35 years of damage," said Kamel al-Gailani, who held talks with an IMF team in Beirut this week. "Iraq is a rich country, but to return to the international community as soon as possible we need a substantial reduction." He declined to say how much.
Ernst & Young to trace Iraqi debt
(March 16, 2004) Young to help trace Iraq’s loan contracts and reconcile who is owed what from the country’s estimated $120 billion debt pile, a senior treasury official told Reuters Tuesday.
Iraq’s odious debts: The odious debt doctrine and Iraq after Saddam
(March 16, 2004) “The majority of the debts that Iraq has inherited from the regime of Saddam Hussein, I believe, are odious in law, and thus not legally enforceable.”
Interview: Iraq hopes to reach debt reduction deal this year
(March 16, 2004) Iraq’s finance minister said on Tuesday Baghdad hoped to finalise a deal to ease its massive debts this year, despite splits among creditors over how much debt relief to grant a country so rich in oil.
Three strikes against graft: assessing the impact of high-profile corruption
(March 15, 2004) Discussion paper on the Lesotho highlands bribery prosecutions.
At Goliath’s feet: the Lesotho corruption and bribery trials
(March 15, 2004) Barrister Fiona Darroch provides an overview of the landmark Lesotho Highlands Water Project corruption trials and addresses some of the wider implications for the international community.
Three strikes against graft
(March 15, 2004) A paper delivered to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) seminar on the impact of
high-profile corruption cases in Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa, held in Gauteng, South Africa, March 15-17, 2004.
U.N. report suggests Canada pay reparations
(March 12, 2004) A draft United Nations report says Canada should consider paying reparations for the immigrant tax once levied on Chinese and to blacks ousted from a town in 1970.
Battling ‘an overindulgence in bribery’
(March 12, 2004) A report by Interfax claims 56 percent of Russians think that bribery and corruption are among the biggest problems in the country. A large majority, 82 percent, think that Russia will not be able to eradicate corruption in the foreseeable future.
African legislators wage war against corruption
(March 11, 2004) This week, parliamentarians across Africa gathered in Abuja, Nigeria for a two-day conference on corruption. Under the auspices of African Parliamentarians Against Corruption (APNAC), participants were expected to debate questions such as the role of parliaments in preventing crimes of laundering and the trafficking of minerals, money and humans, and the establishment of preventive mechanisms and the role of national parliaments in helping to recover looted wealth stashed in other countries, particularly in the West.
‘Anti-corruption’ conviction reveals Communist Party power struggles
(March 11, 2004) An important corruption case has been brewing in China since 1995 and is now finally coming to light.
Political corruption in Mexico, the rest of the story
(March 8, 2004) Out of a plethora of corruption scandals what may hopefully be evolving is a more open and representative society, with transparency in governance and public servants who are actually governed by rules of law and held responsible for their actions.
Interview with Iraq’s minister of trade
(March 7, 2004) According to Harvard-educated Ali Allawi, Iraq’s first trade minister in the post-Saddam Hussein era, the country urgently needs to establish stability, and then can work to forge new economic bonds across the region and the world.
We’ll conquer corruption, declares Nevers Mumba
(March 6, 2004) We want to win the fight against corruption at all costs but we will also ensure that fair justice is given to those implicated. We want justice in our fight against corruption and our men and women in the courts of law are aware of the challenge.
Public trust in government’s anti-corruption efforts rates low
(March 5, 2004) They’ve promised robust economic reform, a better future for the masses and honest, upright government. But the latest generation of Chinese leaders keeps colliding with a problem that won’t go away: People simply don’t trust them.
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