The Never-Ending Austerity Story: Why Greece’s third ‘bailout’ changes nothing
The deal signed last July will see Greece lent more money, primarily to meet its debt payments, while even more austerity and privatisation are forced on it.
The deal signed last July will see Greece lent more money, primarily to meet its debt payments, while even more austerity and privatisation are forced on it.
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…
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…
In a report released today, the UK government has revealed it guaranteed £132 million of loans to the Indonesian government for arms sales in the last year, along with further…
The current deadlock between Greece and the rest of the Eurozone is over whether Eurozone governments will lend more money to enable Greece to meet international debt payments due this…
Commenting on the meeting between Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis with Britain’s George Osborne this morning, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign said: “Greece’s debt comes from loans…
Eighteen organisations from the UK and Global South have written to British Minister for International Development Justine Greening calling for support for a range of measures to prevent debt crises…
Argentina has legislated to create a commission to investigate the origin of the country’s debt, dating back to the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. The law states that once…
An open letter from Nobel Peace Laureate, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, to Thomas Griesa, the US judge presiding over the ‘debt trial of the century’ between Argentina and two vulture funds…