For most of the worlds poorest countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the IFIs status as “preferred creditors,” as providers of core development and balance-of-payment loans.
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Archive: Reports
AIDS and Developing Countries: Democratizing Access
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has likened the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century.
Read moreInternational Investment Rules and the Environment
Environmentalists are increasingly demanding that international rules and corporate norms governing investment explicitly embrace environmental and social performance goals.
Read moreU.S. Leadership in the Global Economy
The twenty-first century requires new paths that encourage exchanges of goods, capital, and people that enhance the social and environmental common good and that discourage or stop those exchanges that undermine healthy communities, a clean environment, and dignified work.
Read moreOverseas Private Investment Organization
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a wholly owned government corporation established in 1971, provides taxpayer-backed loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to U.S. businesses for investments in “politically risky” countries.
Read moreU.S. Democratization Assistance
The Clinton administration went further than Reagan and Bush, announcing in 1993 that all U.S. foreign policy would be guided by the doctrine of “enlargement,” aimed at expanding the community of democratic states.
Read moreExport-Import Bank
The Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) is an independent U.S. government agency established in 1934 to create jobs through exports.
Read moreUnited States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework
In practice, however, Washingtons legacies of neglect and of inappropriate policies toward Africa have remained largely in place with the same overall guidelines
Read moreGlobal Environmental Protection in the 21st Century
In the past three decades, protecting the global environment has emerged as one of the major challenges in international relations.
Read moreRepairing the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening the Foundations
An alternative package of architectural reforms: Bretton Woods Light
Read moreContainment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors
Instead of consulting with Russia over key foreign policy issues such as the Iraq bombings and allied policy toward former Yugoslavia, Washington has attempted to steer Moscow into a diplomatic backwater where it can exert little global influence.
Read moreCapital Flows and Exchange Rate Policy
As neoliberal policies foster greater privatization of the international financial system, countries must rely almost entirely on private financial flows to finance trade, to settle international accounts, even to meet domestic credit needs.
Read moreTurkey: Arms and Human Rights
Considered a strategic NATO ally, Turkey has benefited from a U.S. policy that is long on military assistance and short on constructive criticism.
Read morePopulation and Environment
Sound population policies can brighten environmental prospects while improving life for women and children, enhancing economic development, and contributing to a more secure world.
Read moreU.S.-North Korea Relations
The Pentagon has inflated the North Korean threat in order to rationalize its desire for a missile defense system, to justify a capacity to fight two wars simultaneously, and to explain the need to maintain 37,000 troops in South Korea.
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