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...there is some hope. In recent years, international pressure has yielded critical concessions from rich country creditors. The first and most important came in 1996, when the IMF and the World Bank—the largest lenders to poor nations??announced the creation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. The HIPC Initiative identified 42 eligible countries with “unsustainable” debt burdens that were then given the opportunity to have their debt burdens reduced to more “sustainable” levels...
...19” (Oct. 14), Luke Smith ’04 defends future CEOs by ridiculing liberal students who “choose [self-interest] as a target for their indignation,” especially “considering Adam Smith’s philosophy in the Wealth of Nations??that self-interest best serves society...
Take the WTO ministerial in Cancun. The long anticipated trade talks were quickly abandoned when developing country representatives marched out en masse. One of their chief objections was the developed nations?? intransigence on the issue of agricultural subsidies. According to a recent Oxfam trade report, Northern governments currently shell out one billion dollars in agricultural subsidies every day. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the subsidies controversy is its failure to conform to any simple ideological mold. By making free trade advocates of the developing countries, it turns the usual caricature of the globalization debate...
...speech delivered before 6,000 at the Gordon indoor track and tennis facility, Former President Bill Clinton stresses the need for greater awareness of the dangers of nations?? interdependence in the modern world...
...several years, he locked horns with the United Nations?? World Health Organization (WHO) over its program of treatment for extremely poor patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis—a program which Mukherjee says amounted to letting such patients die on the grounds that treating them would not be “cost-effective...