"One major goal of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and stabilization programs is to generate foreign exchange through a positive trade balance. To meet the IMF's ambitious targets for currency reserves and trade balance, countries must quickly genera

... marked an important advance in international debt relief strategies, providing ... sustainable levels all categories of debt. However, despite the efforts of the ... all expressed concern that too little debt relief is being delivered too late. A

"Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. In

... of G8 efforts to allieviate worldwide debt and poverty, and underlines the

... building of U.S.-Africa relations, the international affairs and the fight against the ... Akassy is a former French international radio correspondent at the United

... owe more than $200 billion in foreign debt -- three times more than they earn ... South Africa) goes to service foreign debt."

The US lost its absolute superiority as an industrial- and export-state. The US balance of payments deficit has nearly doubled since the 1980s. A hard landing of the dollar and a new uncontrollable world currency crisis become more likely the longer the As

... time. I discuss the choice of a single international line, converted using purchasing power ... rates but argue in favor of a single international line, converted at PPP rates, but

... Friday, June 6, 2008; 12:00 AM WASHINGTON -- In recent years, a ... States, calls the continued U.S. "international hegemony" in higher education. ... year, according to the Institute of International Education, Asia sent more than five

... up a ballooning legacy of ecological debt. While this is being addressed by some