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PI in the News

1. Ecuador's default
Audit findings prompt refusal to pay 'illegitimate' debt.
December 12, 2008
by Odious Debts Online

2. Graft fights back
World Bank staff are determined to oust Paul Wolfowitz, because his campaign against corruption threatens their overpaid jobs.
National Post, May 9, 2007
by Patricia Adams

3. Graft fights back
World Bank staff are determined to oust Paul Wolfowitz, because his campaign against corruption threatens their overpaid jobs.
National Post, May 9, 2007
by Patricia Adams

4. Carbon boondoggles
Aid bureaucracies are the only winners when they repackage outdated development projects into supposed carbon savers.
National Post, April 26, 2007
by Grainne Ryder

5. World Bank faces setback to war on corruption
The actions of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz have led to allegations of impropriety just when his campaign against corruption had gathered momentum.
The Christian Science Monitor, April 23, 2007
by Mark Trumbull

6. Internal attack
The only wonder is that it took so long for World Bank staff, faced with Paul Wolfowitz's campaign against corruption, to try to oust him.
National Post, April 17, 2007
by Patricia Adams

7. Internal attack
The only wonder is that it took so long for World Bank staff, faced with Paul Wolfowitz's campaign against corruption, to try to oust him.
National Post, April 17, 2007
by Patricia Adams

8. Wolfowitz deflects questions about role in scandal
"Has he damaged the Bank's reputation as the Bank staff representative association suggested? Get real, I'd say," says Patricia Adams of the Canadian anti-corruption watchdog Probe International.
Inter Press Service News Agency, April 15, 2007
by Emad Mekay

9. Cross-debarment by MDBs could become routine
A decision by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could signal a change in business as usual for MDBs: multiple bank blacklistings for companies found guilty of fraud could become the new trend.
March 22, 2007
by Odious Debts Online

10. Zambia: Let the looters pay the vultures
A British high court ruling has given a so-called "vulture fund" permission to enforce its claim to payment from Zambia for sovereign debt it bought on the secondary debt market for cheap.
February 28, 2007
by Odious Debts Online