Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Charles Davis WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Multilateral lending institutions – like the governments they serve – are ostensibly committed to the values of transparency and accountability. But more often than not, insiders who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse at institutions like the [...]
Medicine Alliance Fighting Corruption in Zambia
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aston Mwila Kuseka LUSAKA, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – "I had always associated corruption with politics and business," laments Chalwe Kabwesha. "When I failed to access ARVs and TB drugs at our clinic because of corruption, I got worried." The 68-year old Kabwesha is a retired civil [...]
MEDIA-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Bad Case of Quid Pro Quo
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – At first glance, the Dominican Republic appears to be a bastion of free information, with seven print dailies and seven national television stations. But journalists here say that more subtle means of coercion have become the norm. [...]
Eat Chinese, But Eat Safe
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – Despite a greater government effort to monitor food safety in the wake of high profile contamination incidents – including the 2008 melamine milk poisoning scandal that killed six infants and made 300,000 ill – the majority of Chinese still [...]
Q&A: Fossil Fuel Lobby Following the Playbook of Big Tobacco
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Stephen Leahy interviews environmental economist ROBERT REPETTO UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 2, 2011 (IPS) – Powerful fossil energy interests are preventing the United States from making the necessary transition to 21st century energy sources, one of the country’s leading environmental economists documents in a just-published book. Fossil energy interests [...]
Never Tip the Army in Egypt
February 25, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mohammed Omer EL-ARISH, Feb 25, 2011 (IPS) – Abu Mustafa Al Matriah and Abu Ahmed Abu Amrah, both Bedouins in Northern Sinai are thankful to the army that they can complete their daily deliveries without having "to pay so much baksheesh" (gratuity). Now that the Mubarak regime [...]
EGYPT: Net Tightens Around Mubarak Cronies
February 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cam McGrath CAIRO, Feb 24, 2011 (IPS) – Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s cronies and political allies could not be touched for years, but his departure has stripped them of protection. Now they are under investigation for corruption and graft – and many Egyptians expect to finally [...]
INDIA: Whistleblowers Pay With Their Lives
February 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sujoy Dhar NEW DELHI, Feb 22, 2011 (IPS) – On a winter evening this January, Amarnath Pandey was returning home through a low-lit alley of a suburban town in India’s heartland state Uttar Pradesh when a motorcycle-riding gunman suddenly appeared and fired at him. "The bullet luckily [...]
