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Article: The Bush administration, debt relief, and the war on terror: reforming the international development system as part of the neoconservative project.(Report)
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- September 22, 2008
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IN JULY 2005, THE WORLD WAS TREATED TO THE ODD SIGHT OF THE HIGHLY CONSERVATIVE Bush administration, generally considered indifferent if not hostile to the fate of the poor, taking the lead in pushing the other G8 nations to support full debt cancellation for the world's most heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), a program later dubbed the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). This had been a longstanding demand of the global justice movement, which did not see the Bush administration as anything remotely like an ally. (1) Fifty Years is Enough, one of the more radical of these movement organizations, found itself "in the unfamiliar and uncomfortable position of ...