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Poor countries cut public spending, debt payments treble
Figures calculated by Jubilee Debt Campaign from IMF and World Bank data show that growing debt burdens are contributing to public spending cuts For the 15 countries spending over 18%…
Reaction to Russian bank suing Mozambique in London
Campaigners say people of Mozambique should not have to pay one cent in debt arising from secret loans Reacting to reports that Russian State bank VTB has filed a case…
Response to the IMF response on bailing out reckless lenders
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has publicly responded to our research, launched yesterday with 34 other civil society organisations, that $93 billion of IMF loans are being used to bail…
The IMF is spending $93 billion bailing out reckless lenders
New research by the Jubilee Debt Campaign indicates a major breach by the IMF of its own policies, with $93 billion of lending to highly indebted countries, without any debt…
We support the climate strike: climate justice means debt justice too
It is horrendously unjust that people who have done the least to cause the climate crisis are suffering from the greenhouse gas emissions of rich people and countries.
Argentina debt crisis inevitable failure of IMF bailout
IMF broke own rules to agree loans last year without a debt restructuring taking place By bailing out reckless lenders, the IMF repeats the same mistakes it made in Greece…
Speculators make 13% despite Ebola crisis in DR Congo
No money paid out from pandemic insurance scheme because Ebola has not crossed into a second country Scheme is the latest to use public money to fund private sector profits…
Former Credit Suisse banker pleads guilty over Mozambique loans
Former Credit Suisse banker Andrew Pearse has pleaded guilty to taking millions of dollars in kickbacks on three loans he helped arrange to three state–owned companies in Mozambique. The loans…
Tanzania refuses release of IMF debt risk analysis
Failure to publish means lenders still being guided by old ‘low risk’ rating Lesotho moves from low risk to moderate, while Timor-Leste moves from moderate to low risk The government…
