This guide, available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese aims to help civil society organisations, journalists and interested citizens find and understand information on government debt. Accessing information is vital to…
Jubilee Debt Campaign has been warning of Lebanon’s debt crisis since 2015 Large write-downs in debt will be needed by creditors to enable the country to recover Today Lebanon defaulted…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has publicly responded to our research, launched yesterday with 34 other civil society organisations, that $93 billion of IMF loans are being used to bail…
Briefing available in English, French and Spanish In this briefing 34 civil society organisations set out how IMF loans are used to bail out reckless lenders. They call for the…
New research by the Jubilee Debt Campaign indicates a major breach by the IMF of its own policies, with $93 billion of lending to highly indebted countries, without any debt…
IMF broke own rules to agree loans last year without a debt restructuring taking place By bailing out reckless lenders, the IMF repeats the same mistakes it made in Greece…
Failure to publish means lenders still being guided by old ‘low risk’ rating Lesotho moves from low risk to moderate, while Timor-Leste moves from moderate to low risk The government…
$449 million of loans agreed but no reduction in debt principal owed Debt negotiations with private commodity traders are still ongoing The IMF has agreed $449 million of loans to…
External debt payments by developing country governments grew by 85%, as a proportion of government revenue, between 2010 and 2018 For the countries with the highest payments, in two-thirds public…
In recent weeks there have been several arrests in Mozambique connected to the $2 billion secret loan scandal. This could indicate that the Mozambique government is now more willing to…
