Impoverished countries are being sold a dangerous private finance scheme
A new manifesto has been launched by civil society organisations from all over the globe, to condemn this exploitative financial practice
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…
Double standards: How the UK promotes rip-off health PPPs abroad
This report (24 pages) concerns Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare, known in the UK as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) It exposes how such PPPs have been an expensive…
We must recognise the role of PFI debts in the NHS funding crisis
The first weeks of 2017 in the UK have been filled with news that the NHS and social care are in crisis, due to a lack of government funding. It…
Blog from Jamaica: ‘We are in the same debt trap as the government’
It is 1998, I’m 16 and going on my first large protest. It’s in Birmingham for the Jubilee 2000 demonstration, calling for the G8 group of self-appointed most important countries…
