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External debt audits and fair and transparent arbitration – the case of Ecuador

March 11, 2010 By picardo Leave a Comment

On the 15th of December 2008 Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa took the unprecedented step of declaring that Ecuador would stop paying interest on commercial bonds owed by the government on the basis that they were ‘obviously immoral and illegitimate’. The decision came as a result of a comprehensive debt audit for which Ecuadorian civil society […]

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