The UK’s Department for International Development is considering using aid money to subsidise lower interest rates for export credits for some low income countries. Export credits are government backed loans…
Read our 6-page briefing in full: ‘Public-private partnerships and the financial cost to governments: Case study on the power sector in Uganda’ Privatisation of the Ugandan electricity sector, initiated in…
The Scottish government have signalled that they would take action to deal with unjust debts inherited from the UK, if there is a yes vote in 2014’s independence referendum. The…
Business Minister Vince Cable has refused to respond to concerns raised by the Kenyan Debt Relief Network (KENDREN) about the legitimacy of Kenya’s debt to the UK. Kiama Kaara, Senior…
Jubilee Debt Campaign’s new report examines the way that western-backed institutions, such as the World Bank, supported the government of Guatemala as it terrorised its own people in the late…
A 1982 massacre paved the way for a hydroelectric dam built with development bank funds. What lessons have been learned? Thirty years ago a massacre took place in the Guatemalan…
Jubilee Debt Campaign’s new report on the Export Credits Guarantee Department exposes a history of backing projects by large corporations in a handful of controversial sectors, that has created £2…
