Global IssuesNews headlines for “Corruption”, page 27
EUROPE: No Qualms Funding Tax Haven-Tainted Banks
- Inter Press Service
Although the links between tax evasion and global poverty are officially recognised, the European Investment Bank, the lending arm of the European Union (EU), has no qualms financing banks known to stash away money in tax havens.
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Corruption: A Crime Against Development
- Inter Press Service
Corruption is preventing the world from reducing extreme poverty, from averting child deaths and even from fighting epidemics like HIV/AIDS.
CORRUPTION-SIERRA LEONE: President Challenged on Corruption
- Inter Press Service
The country’s president has failed to meet his electoral commitment of running a transparent and accountable government, free of tribalism and regionalism, opposition parties say.
U.S.: Climate Policy Derailed by Corporate Interests
- Inter Press Service
As the U.S. climate delegation arrives in Copenhagen nearly empty-handed, watchdog groups back at home say they know why: a political system gone astray due to the influence of huge amounts of corporate cash.
SENEGAL: Farmers Anxious About Aid
- Inter Press Service
As part of a project to support community initiatives and fight poverty in South Senegal, the Sédhiou Local Development Fund received a donation of agricultural equipment worth more than half a million dollars in a bid to reverse the region's dramatic drop in agricultural production in recent years.
MALAYSIA: State of Sarawak Forests: Gov’t Agency Stands by Report
- Inter Press Service
For a long time, activists had believed that rainforests in the vast northwest Borneo state of Sarawak were being logged unsustainably, rapidly making way for tree (acacia) plantations, oil palm plantations, dams and secondary growth. But few listened.
AFGHANISTAN: Corruption Fight Begins, Again
- Inter Press Service
When the Independent Election Commission announced that Hamid Karzai would be president for another five years, local and international powers began to demand that the newly re-elected president clamp down on the corruption that had spread like a virus throughout his administration and the ministries.
CORRUPTION-UGANDA: Leaders’ integrity questioned
- Inter Press Service
Seated at a u-shaped table is an assembly of middle-aged men and women clad in business suits, faces stern and expressionless. Refreshments — bottled water, sodas and giant flasks of tea — clutter the long table, competing for space with piles of documents.
ECONOMY: Government Failures Feeding Next Financial Bubble
- Inter Press Service
Numerous failures by industrialised countries’ governments and central banks in managing the financial crisis are feeding the next bubble, which most likely will again provoke economic woes such as recession, unemployment, and poverty, according to economists and analysts.
AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces
- Inter Press Service
A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Similar attacks have taken the lives of U.S. troops.
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