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Album
Drop the Debt
Label: World Village
Released: 2003
Track listing: Baba / Tiken Jah Fakoly (Ivory Coast) & Tribo de Jah (Brazil); Quem pode / Teofilo Chantre &
Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde); Il faut payer/Devo e n
Article: Album Review
Various Artists: Drop the Debt
by AAJ Staff
Ostensibly aimed at improving the infrastructure and efficiency of third world economies, international moneylenders directed poor countries toward debt in the '70s. The optimism and theoretical benefit of these money transfers ended up far outweighed by their costs in terms of misdirection, disorganization, and corruption (witness the price personally extracted by Suharto in Indonesia). ...
