Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish ... - 0 views
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So why aren't we taxing the rich?
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Our political system is failing to tax the rich because the rich have fortunes large enough to buy off the political system
The girl with the Egyptian flag | African news, analysis and opinion - The Africa Repor... - 0 views
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must register and consolidate their victories in the institutions of that state
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how dependent on the advice of foreign experts
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apartheid debt
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Egypt's 'Orderly Transition'? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment - 0 views
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a critique of these financial packages needs to be seen as much more than just a further illustration of Western hypocrisy
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a sustained effort to restrain the revolution within the bounds of an ‘orderly transition’
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Egypt is, in many ways, shaping up as the perfect laboratory of the so-called post-Washington Consensus, in which a liberal-sounding ‘pro poor’ rhetoric – principally linked to the discourse of democratization – is used to deepen the neoliberal trajectory of the Mubarak-era
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EBRD to start North Africa lending by mid-2012 - 0 views
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The EBRD, an international lending institution which has focused on emerging European economies, announced last week that shareholder governments had backed the expansion of its mandate to North Africa. The bank is one of the tools the international community will use to supply aid to Arab governments and encourage them to pursue democratic reforms in the wake of this year's Arab Spring political unrest.
UPDATE 1-Egypt finmin expects to get IMF loan by end-June - 0 views
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Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:59am EDT * Minister confident loan will be sealed next month * Muslim Brotherhood won't accept loan without new terms or govt, due in June * IMF had made broad political support a condition CAIRO, April 12 (Reuters) - Egypt's government expects to seal a loan from the International Monetary Fund by May 15, allowing the money to be disbursed before a new president is sworn in at the end of June, the country's Finance Minister Mumtaz al-Saeed said on Thursday.
CADTM - Moratorium on Tunisian debt: an urgency for the people of Tunisia - 0 views
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By the same authorMarie-Christine Vergiat By the same authorGabi Zimmer By the same authorCADTM Press release 4 April 2011 by Marie-Christine Vergiat, Gabi Zimmer, CADTM Press release of Marie-Christine Vergiat (Front de Gauche) and Gabi Zimmer (Die Linke) MEPs and of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) Following a meeting held in the European parliament in Brussels organised by the CADTM (committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) and two MEPs from the GUE-NGL (European United Left-Nordic Green Left), Marie Christine Vergiat (Front de Gauche) and Gaby Zimmer (Die Linke), and several members of the European and national parliaments belonging to different political affiliations, are launching an appeal calling for the immediate suspension of the EU debt repayment by Tunisia (with frozen interests).
The Arab Spring and international debt: Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain's debt to Norway | e... - 0 views
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Eurodad partners and have released a new report on Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain's debts to Norway During the winter of 2011 the world witnessed a political earthquake in North Africa and in the Middle East. The Arab spring raised several questions around debt cancellation and especially on debt legitimacy.
Calling Foreign Debt 'Immoral,' Leader Allows Ecuador to Default - 0 views
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Ecuador is ceasing payments not because the oil-rich country cannot afford to pay but because it has made a political decision not to.
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Some analysts fear it may set a precedent
Deauville Partnership -- International Financial Institutions (IFIs) statement -- Septe... - 0 views
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As a response to the historical changes underway in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), the Deauville Partnership launched at the G8 Summit in May 2011, provided the concerned countries with a framework for partnership based on (i) a political process to support the democratic transition; and (ii) an economic framework for transparent, accountable government as well as sustainable and inclusive growth.
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