Avoid perils of Britain’s PFI say campaigners Campaigners protested outside a conference in London this morning to warn of the dangers to government finances of public-private partnerships. The campaigners placed…
In the UK the Private Finance Initiative is crippling public services. Now the UK and the City of London are exporting this debt iceberg around the world.
Cost of energy public-private partnership has added $200 million to Tanzanian government debt at same time as electricity prices have been hiked to among the highest on African continent Read…
In response to the deal with Greece being reached over the debt crisis: Tim Jones, economist at the Jubilee Debt Campaign said: “This is not an agreement but an outrageous…
Executive summary also available in French and Portuguese (8 pages). This report (40 pages) and its executive summary (8 pages) investigates the debts owed by countries as a whole – both…
Lending levels to the most impoverished countries in the world have tripled, ten years after the G7 finance ministers agreed a debt cancellation deal for low income countries, potentially setting…
Figures calculated by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, based on recently released data from the World Bank, show that loans to impoverished country governments have increased by 40% in just one…
Reacting to the announcement by the IMF that it will cancel almost $100 million of debt owed by Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, whilst lending $160 million in new loans,…
Take Action: Call on the IMF to cancel all the debt now The IMF is going back on a pledge made by the G20 to cancel debts of Ebola countries,…
Western countries, through the OECD, have agreed new rules for themselves on when they are allowed to call loans ‘aid’. The new rules restrict the terms on which loans can…
