Shine a light on loans to governments: MP briefing
This one-page briefing summarises our campaign to make loans to governments transparent, including the measure the UK parliament can pass to make this happen.
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Guide to meeting your MP on secret debts
This four-page guide gives you the information and skills you need to meet your MP to discuss our campaign to stop loans to governments being given in secret.
Don’t owe, shouldn’t pay: The impact of climate change on debt in vulnerable countries
This new briefing ‘Don’t owe, shouldn’t pay: The impact of climate change on debt in vulnerable countries‘ analyses the impact of climate change on debt in vulnerable countries, particularly small states.…
Africa’s growing debt crisis: Who is the debt owed to?
This research briefing investigates who African governments’ external debt is owed to, and whether loans from China are as large a portion of the debt as has been recently claimed…
The case for a household debt jubilee
This briefing makes the case for writing off around £40 billion of ‘unjust’ household debt in the UK. A decade since the onset of the global financial crisis, outstanding household debt…
Ten key facts about debt in the UK
Since the global financial crisis of 2007-08, debt has been one of the main issues facing the UK economy, from the private sector debts which caused the crisis, to the impact…
The new developing world debt crisis
A new debt crisis has begun in impoverished countries. The UK needs to take responsibility now for the debt contracted under English law. Read the 4 page briefing here. Summary A…
Double standards: How the UK promotes rip-off health PPPs abroad
This report (24 pages) concerns Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare, known in the UK as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) It exposes how such PPPs have been an expensive…
Honest Accounts 2017: How the world profits from Africa’s wealth
Research for this report calculates the movement of financial resources into and out of Africa and some key costs imposed on Africa by the rest of the world. We find that the countries…
Debt justice and the 2017 general election
Ahead of the 2017 general election, Jubilee Debt Campaign have produced a short guide and suggested question for four vital issues: The UK’s role in Africa’s debt crisis The global debt…