Dictators and debt: let's clarify the rules.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter...

Finance & Development;  June 1, 2005 ;   Jayachandran, Seema Kremer, Michael;   451 words ......restricting loans to odious regimes, legitimate governments...borrows and an odious regime subsequently...unlikely that odious regimes are really borrowing...that restricts odious debt. However...If loans to odious regimes were restricted...

Odious or just malodorous? Why the odious debt proposal is likely to stay...

Finance & Development;  December 1, 2004 ;   Rajan, Raghuram;   787 words ......the debt incurred by the odious regime. Also, creditor country...make it more difficult for odious regimes to borrow, but it would...of being succeeded by an odious regime. A fledgling democratic...assuming, of course, that the odious regime was not bent on ...

Politically Incorrect: Spies in Whitehall.(Features)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  January 30, 2000 ;   Buckland, Chris;   89 words ......have been plastered all over the media, including one which revealed the UK was selling spare parts for fighter jets to the odious regime in Zimbabwe. One senior minister is suspected of spilling these particular beans; surely a case for an ethical spying-on...

Letter: Still odious HAMBER.(Letters)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 22, 2003 ;     82 words ......worshippingwarmongers who only discovered his crime post-1990 when he invaded the land of oil known as Kuwait. There is another odious regime in the Middle East who Britain and USA still a . m and support -that of Saudi Arab ia. The barbaric practice of amputations...

IRAQ STILL DESERVES SANCTIONS.(Editorial)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 26, 1996 ;     245 words ......be all too susceptible to letting bygones be bygones with Iraq. But the reasons for keeping sanctions in place against the odious regime of Saddam Hussein are more compelling than ever. Ekeus, a Swedish diplomat, is the United Nations chief weapons inspector...

(book review)

World Literature Today;  June 22, 2000 ;   Bradbrook, B. R.;   440 words ......of unhappiness in human relations. A decade after the fall of communism in Klima's homeland, the destructive legacy of the odious regime still upsets indirectly the balance of normality in Klima's excellent analysis of the fact that not everything is well in...

Letter: An African solution

The Independent on Sunday;  January 12, 2003 ;   Matthew Coleman;   176 words ...In "England should not play into the hands of Mugabe's odious regime" (5 January), Peter Hain asks: "What are they [the African nations] doing to help oppressed Zimbabweans? An African solution is...

Slow Fix, No Fix

The Washington Post;  May 6, 1988 ;     277 words ......Panamanians from all walks of life have put their livelihood and, yes, even their lives on the line to bring Gen. Noriega and his odious regime down. Gen. Noriega has so far hung on to power-he has the guns and the money to keep himself and his army well fed, content...

Sovereign debt restructuring, odious debt, and the politics of debt...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;   Rasmussen, Robert K.;   787 words ...I INTRODUCTION Odious debt is more of a literature than a doctrine...not have to pay back debts that are labeled odious. (1) The central intuition is that the citizens...have to pay for the debts incurred by a prior odious regime when those funds did not benefit these citizens...supported by the ...

The dilemma of odious debts.

Duke Law Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;   Buchheit, Lee C. Gulati, G. Mitu Thompson, Robert B.;   787 words ......and it would simultaneously force prospective lenders to an odious regime to rethink the wisdom of advancing funds on so fragile a...so that it now modifies the word regime (as in debts of an odious regime ). This is a major shift. If this new version of the odious...

The politics of international administration.

Global Governance;  January 1, 2004 ;   Berdal, Mats Caplan, Richard;   787 words ......international criticism by invoking a plea: the challenge of administrating postwar Iraq following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's odious regime was so unique, so wholly different from what had gone on elsewhere and before, that no amount of prewar planning could have...

Devilry, complicity, and greed: transitional justice and odious...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;   Gray, David C.;   787 words ......debt doctrine to cover all debts of odious regimes are maddeningly complex, implicating...debtors who supply financial support to odious regimes. Upon a full accounting, then, I argue...doctrine expanded to cover all debts of odious regimes. II A NEW DOCTRINE OF ODIOUS DEBTS...

Patience in Burma

The Washington Post;  May 7, 2002 ;     541 words ...FOR YEARS, companies eager to do business with the odious regime that misrules the Southeast Asian nation of Burma have argued that trade sanctions have no effect. Now that those sanctions clearly...

When Sanctions Make Sense

The Washington Post;  April 24, 1997 ;     426 words ......do business with Nigeria? The Clinton administration, it's true, hasn't been hobbled by consistency in its dealings with odious regimes. The first post-Cold War president has been feeling his way toward a new balance of commercial advantage, moral concern...

North Korea scorecard.(COMMENTARY)

The Washington Times;  January 14, 2003 ;     787 words ......lead the Bush administration to do what it has pretty much refused to do to this point: embrace and prop-up one of the most odious regimes on the planet - that of Kim Jong-il in North Korea. c First, Mr. Kim's regime is evil, indeed monstrously so. President...