"World Bank disgrace": Wall Street Journal
January 16, 2008,
A much-anticipated World Bank review has found "serious incidents of fraud and corruption" in $570 million in bank loans to India's health sector. [Full story]
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Clearly Odious
January 16, 2008,
Reporting on Indonesia's ex-president Suharto's death watch, Canada's National Post paints a clear picture of how the people of Indonesia became saddled with a legacy of odious debts. [Full story]
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Scholars chart new legal course
January 16, 2008,
Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke Law School's oldest journal, is dedicating two issues to the ideas presented at the Odious Debts and State Corruption conference that have broadened the legal discourse about odious debt. [Full story]
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World Bank too close to Kenyan President?
January 16, 2008,
Colin Bruce, the country director for the World Bank in Nairobi, argued in a leaked confidential memo that President Mwai Kibaki's claim of victory in the country's disputed elections should be supported, reports FT.com. [Full story]
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German Jubilee movement slams World Bank odious debts paper as "biased" and "misleading"
December 28, 2007,
The popular German grassroots Jubilee movement Erlassjahr.de has dismissed the recent World Bank paper on odious debts as biased and flawed. [Full story]
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Global Transparency Initiative calling for IFI policy overhaul
December 28, 2007,
The civil society monitor Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) is rallying civil society organizations to add their name to a petition endorsing the Charter to International Financial Institutions: Claiming Our Right to Know. The Charter calls for a complete overhaul of these policies and pushes for greater access to the 'wealth of information' IFIs withhold from the public. " [Full story]
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