democracy now! headlines 1/21/09 IMF drops some conditionality on Haiti

10,000 Bodies Buried Daily in Quake Aftermath; Medical Group Faults US Militarization of Haitian Relief;
IMF Drops Conditions on $100M Haiti Loan...

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
Democracy Now
Length: 
10min.

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bijitaq
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Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - putting together a coherent civil society response.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
zoe young
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The two main factions in Zimbabwe's unity government have clashed over how to spend half a billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund, in a dispute that could create further tensions in the already shaky coalition.

The country's finance minister, Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, has earmarked about $50m of

Date of Production: 
Dec 2009
Author: 
Al Jazeera English
Length: 
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Sargon Nissan of the New Economics Foundation speaking at the Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - putting together a coherent civil society response.

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Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
ifiwatchtv
Length: 
20min.
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Idris Elbai has joined the Oxfam campaign calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to drop Haiti's Debt.

Date of Production: 
Feb 2010
Author: 
Oxfam Great Britain
Length: 
1min.
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The Journalist, Marc Mathieu, and Lawyer, Serge Angrand discuss free trade and liberalization impact on Haiti agriculture.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
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Should they move towards an economic union like Europe in order to prosper?

Date of Production: 
Jan 2009
Author: 
bmstv
Length: 
6min.
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The destruction of Haiti before the destrution.

Washington, Aristide, and the issue of the sale of state-owned enterprises
The events after early 1994 were discussed by Naomi Klein and Aristide in 2005. After that discussion, and after research assistance by Aaron Maté, the following words of Klein were published by The Nation and Now magazine:

Date of Production: 
Feb 2010
Author: 
Baracka Productions.
Length: 
3min.