MIAMI — Negotiations to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) ended two weeks ago with the participating countries saying that they would try to bring a watered-down version of the FTAA into existence by January 2005. But few believe that will actually happen — mostly because the United States and the region’s […]
Rick Rowden
Rick Rowden is the Senior Policy Analyst at ActionAid USA in Washington, D.C. He has taught international political economy at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
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A World of Debt
One of Bill Clinton’s final acts as president was to secure Congress’s approval for a $435-million component within the foreign-aid bill last October. This provision fulfills the pledge the United States originally made in 1996 at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit, where the world’s seven richest governments agreed to finance a debt-relief plan for […]