Countries with high debt burdens are suffering from years of austerity, with public spending lower in 2023 than 2015. The new research, released today by Debt Justice, finds that lower-income…
Lower income countries which applied for scheme have spent $36.4 billion on external debt payments during the pandemic, and had just $10.9 billion suspended or cancelled Private creditors received the…
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…
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…
• Government external debt payments reach highest level in the last decade following commodity price falls and rising value of the US dollar • Figures released before US Federal Reserve…
Yields on African countries’ debts have increased by more than for countries such as the US and UK Calculations by the Jubilee Debt Campaign have shown that the future borrowing…
