Great North Run: 14th Glorious Year for Team Jubilee
About 60 people, most of them staff and students at Newcastle University, participated in Jubilee Debt Campaign’s team in the Great North Run, the biggest half-marathon in the world, on…
About 60 people, most of them staff and students at Newcastle University, participated in Jubilee Debt Campaign’s team in the Great North Run, the biggest half-marathon in the world, on…
A decade of IMF conditionality and adjustment sparked Argentina’s 2001 debt default and economic earthquake, and it was expelled from the country in 2006. Yet the country’s new government has…
Tuna fishing ships and military patrol boats are currently sitting dormant, docked in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo. Together, these boats provide a daily physical reminder of the ongoing political scandal that…
When it comes to infrastructure – roads, railways, power plants, ports and the like – the policy prescriptions from the World Bank and other international financial institutions sound like a…
We have been at Glastonbury Festival spreading the word about the true cost of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). After many years of faithful service, the Drop the Debt bus has finally given…
Civil society from borrowing and lending countries call for new approach to assessing debts The IMF and World Bank are reviewing the Debt Sustainability Framework, their main policy which is…
A group of 26 organisations in Mozambique have asserted that the $1.86 billion of the country’s debts at the centre of a growing international controversy were contracted illegally and should…
Commenting on the Eurogroup and IMF staff agreement in Brussels early on Wednesday morning, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign said: “IMF staff are proposing to lend more…
The Eurogroup of Eurozone Finance Ministers has finally agreed to begin discussions on debt relief for Greece. However, initial proposals developed by the European institutions do little to address Greece’s…
Over recent days it has come to light that Credit Suisse and VTB lent around $1.35 billion to Mozambique, but the government and the lenders hid this from any public…