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nohaelshoky

Debt Relief for Egypt? Peterson Institute for International Economics February 10, 2012 - 0 views

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    Presentation
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Debt Relief for Egypt? November 2011 - 0 views

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    Policy Brief
philip rizk

Global markets shaken by Greek debt crisis - Europe - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

  • The BBC reported that a leaked account of a meeting between EU commissioners on Wednesday suggested that the commissioners have a "profound sense of foreboding" about Greece and the future of the eurozone.
philip rizk

Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish | Economy | AlterNet - 0 views

  • So why aren't we taxing the rich?
  • Our political system is failing to tax the rich because the rich have fortunes large enough to buy off the political system
philip rizk

coalition against third world debt - 0 views

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    "RAID-CADTM Tunisia BP 133 8020 Slimene Tunisia Tel/Fax: 00216 79 325 915 E.mail : fatcham@yahoo.fr"
philip rizk

CADTM - Debt, Dictatorship, and Democratization - 0 views

  • transitional justice
  • accountability for the past
philip rizk

The girl with the Egyptian flag | African news, analysis and opinion - The Africa Report.com - 0 views

  • must register and consolidate their victories in the institutions of that state
  • how dependent on the advice of foreign experts
  • apartheid debt
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  • orderly
  • democracy has not solved the most pressing of our own social contradictions, they have become worse.
  • it is very hard to keep
  • But for a democratic surplus, that is, and the procedural rights and freedoms South Africans enjoy, such as assembly and to vote for whom we choose among contesting elites. It is the absence of an out-and-out dictator, it seems, that keeps South Africa’s poor and discontented in their place.
  • an actual, not merely branded by a well-meaning Al Jazeera, ‘day of rage’.
  • A riot releases a qualitatively different element of political alchemy. It makes no demand. It constitutes itself as power rather than asking for stuff from the state. People in this mode have a burst to them that ranks and ranks of police cannot hold.
  • The top two of these historically are bread prices and repression. It seems that Arab politics has added a third distinct motive to revolt, one flowing from the form of state that has arisen in a privatized, globalised, late capitalist and kleptocractic era
  • Egypt is also an example of a country that decolonized very early and whose nationalist leaders enjoyed much prestige for their role in winning independence and keeping sovereignty. These struggle credentials and symbologies, such as they are, do not last
  • A second wave of post-nationalist, Arab liberation struggles are patently taking place now with a coherent and infectious set of ideas informing them.
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    "must register and consolidate their victories in the institutions of that state"
philip rizk

Calling Foreign Debt 'Immoral,' Leader Allows Ecuador to Default - 0 views

  • Ecuador is ceasing payments not because the oil-rich country cannot afford to pay but because it has made a political decision not to.
  • Some analysts fear it may set a precedent
nohaelshoky

List of JAPAN soft loans 1974-2004 (incl.Dekheila) - 1 views

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    Soft Loans JAPAN extended concessional loans to Egypt in order to assist Egypt to implement large-scale economic infrastructure projects such as Al-Dekheila Integrated Steel Mill and the Suez Canal Expansion Project. Since 1991, Japan has stopped extending new loans because of the debt rescheduling for Egypt, but new three candidate projects were formally applied for the government of Egypt to Japan in 1999.
philip rizk

Time to end the underwriting of unethical business abroad | Lisa Nandy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • When the project buyer fails to pay up, the ECGD can turn this into "third world" debt
nohaelshoky

Drop 'dictator debt,' activists and economists say | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt - 0 views

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    Egypt has a budget deficit of nearly 10 percent of GDP and the finance minister recently said that the country is on the brink of a liquidity crisis. Meanwhile, economic growth has slowed since the uprising, decreasing government revenues, while public sector workers around the country are striking to raise wages that have been stagnant for decades.
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