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…
Debt deal with Cuba includes cancelling late interest calculated with huge 11% interest rate £139 million of ‘made-up money’ will count as UK aid and contribute towards meeting the UK…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New figures released today predict that current rates of lending could lead to debts becoming unsustainable in many impoverished countries over the next decade, just a few years after some…
Ghana is to hold negotiations with the IMF in September on a new loan programme following a fall in the currency which has increased the level of debt payments. Under…
Our response to the International Development Select Committee's report on the future of aid.
