Commenting ahead of the first meeting of the UK’s new Economic Crime Strategic Board, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, said: “While welcome, today’s focus on economic crime…
The legitimacy of the debt must be challenged and proposals for a public debt audit resuscitated. Dan Ozarow is Chair of Jubilee Debt Campaign’s Academic Advisory Network and member of Action…
Reacting to the news that three former Credit Suisse bankers have been arrested in London, as part of a US investigation into $2 billion of loans to Mozambique, Tim Jones,…
Responding to reports that former Mozambique Finance Minister Manuel Chang has been arrested in South Africa in relation to the $2 billion secret debt deals, Tim Jones, policy officer at…
Interest rates on new developing country borrowing increased by an average of 2.2 percentage points over the course of 2018. Yields on low- and lower-middle income country debt, calculated by…
In November the IMF agreed a new $172 million loan programme with Sierra Leone, spread over the next 3 and a half years, until mid-2022. At the same time, the…
UK Prime Minister calls for implementation of 2017 guidelines But UK government itself has been unwilling to implement these limited guidelines for loans from UK-based banks and companies G20 governments…
John Glen MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, has replied to MPs about our campaign to stop secret loans. We are calling for measures to ensure all loans to governments…
Today the Financial Times has reported that a group of vulture funds have hired lawyer Lee Buchheit to argue for debt relief for Sudan. They hope that if the North…
This is a guest post by Sunit Bagree, Senior Campaigns Officer, Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), based on a talk given at the Jubilee Debt Campaign event ‘Breaking the chains: 1998…