The Never-Ending Austerity Story: Why Greece’s third ‘bailout’ changes nothing
The deal signed last July will see Greece lent more money, primarily to meet its debt payments, while even more austerity and privatisation are forced on it.
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The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next
Executive summary also available in French and Portuguese (8 pages). This report (40 pages) and its executive summary (8 pages) investigates the debts owed by countries as a whole – both…
How Europe cancelled Germany’s debt in 1953
The 1953 London Debt Accords show that European leaders know how to resolve a debt crisis in the interests of justice and recovery. Here are four key lessons for Greece’s…
Six key points about Greece’s debt
Greece’s election has delivered a clear rejection of Troika-imposed austerity and the EU’s approach to the crisis. Here are six key points about Greece’s debt. 1) European banks were bailed…
Don’t turn the clock back: Analysing the risks of the lending boom to impoverished countries
There is currently a boom in lending to impoverished countries. External loans to low income countries increased by 75% between 2008 and 2012. Lending to sub-Saharan African countries doubled over…
Honest accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses
Jubilee Debt Campaign, along with ten other organisations, including Health Poverty Action and the African Forum, has published research which reveals Africa is losing $192 billion every year to the…
Vulture funds: Parliamentary briefing
Parliamentary briefing which sets out the case for why MPs should support Early Day Motion 666, calling on the UK government to: share its experience of legislating on vulture funds…
Life and debt: Global studies of debt and resistance
Report investigating the impact of debt and austerity, and campaigns for justice, in Egypt, El Salvador, Greece, Jamaica, Latvia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Portugal and Tunisia. Download Life and debt: Global…
Unlocking the chains of debt: A call for debt relief for Pakistan
New government faces crisis as debt payments increase rapidly. Pakistan’s economy has been paralysed by an unpayable and largely unjust debt burden that is preventing the country reaching its poverty…
Food, Debt and Power
There is easily enough food in the world to feed everyone. So why are 870 million people chronically hungry? Jubilee Debt Campaign’s new briefing looks at the root causes of…