Ghana’s debt crisis worse than IMF expected, as lenders continue to profit
The IMF has completed the fourth review of its programme in Ghana, agreeing to disburse a further $95 million of loans, taking total loans to $565 million. The IMF has…
UK government promotes rip-off health PFI schemes abroad which it disowns at home
Liam Fox, Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel have all criticised the costs of PFI schemes in the UK, yet their departments are all actively promoting similar schemes in…
UK government responds to demands on Mozambique’s secret debt
A government minister has written to the Jubilee Debt Campaign following our campaign to stop the IMF bailing out secret lenders to Mozambique
Our ‘Education for Action’ workshops land in three UK cities
We’ve taken our ‘Debt and Economic: Education for Action!’ workshops to three cities this summer. Between Newcastle, Manchester and London around fifty people gave up a whole Saturday to brush…
Mozambican civil society challenges legality of “odious” loans
The Mozambique Budget Monitoring Forum has lodged a petition with the country’s Constitutional Council challenging the legality of the $850 million secret loan arranged by Credit Suisse to the Mozambican…
Release of audit raises huge questions over $2 billion loans to Mozambique
A condition of Credit Suisse to get the loans signed off by the Bank of Mozambique was dropped in order for the loans to be given Credit Suisse and VTB…
Campaigners warn against IMF endorsement of Greece bailout
Commenting ahead of the meeting of the Eurogroup, Greece and IMF on Thursday 15 June, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, said: “If it signs up to the…
Africa subsidises the rest of the world by over $40 billion in one year, according to new research
Much more wealth is leaving the world’s most impoverished continent than is entering it, according to new research into total financial flows into and out of Africa. The study finds…
Global debt crises and threats increase across the world
Twenty-seven countries across the world are in debt crisis, with a further 80 at risk of being so, according to new figures released for World Debt Day on 16 May.…
Debt and economics workshops across the UK
Join Jubilee Debt Campaign in Newcastle, Manchester or London for an interactive, informative, educational day-long workshop looking at how debt and economics are impacting people around the world in 2017.…
