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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

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Drop the Debt

Read "Drop the Debt" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 5, 2003

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). ...