Tanzania hit by costs of public-private partnerships
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…
Public-private partnerships in Uganda cost the country dearly
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…
The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next
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…
Greece parliamentary audit shows debt is illegitimate
Commenting on the release of the Executive Summary of the Greek Debt Truth Committee, established by the Greek parliament, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, said: “The initial…
Chancellor ignores Jubilee for Justice demands
In September 2013, we handed in a petition from over 10,000 people calling for a Jubilee for Justice: – Cancellation of unjust debts – Just and progressive taxation – Controls…
Vulture funds take control of Cooperative Bank
The same vulture fund which is trying to make Argentina default on its debt has now wrested the Cooperative Bank out of cooperative hands. Aurelius Capital Management, along with Silver…
The debt stories they don’t want you to know
I sometimes get asked, ‘If all countries are in debt, then who are they in debt to’? It’s a good question. Have we discovered life on another planet, who are…
Laos’ ‘debt distress’ eases so will get fewer grants and more loans
The IMF have reclassified the Laos government as being at moderate rather than high risk of not being able to pay external debts. The change is not due to any…
The State of Debt
Thirty years of debt crisis have devastated livelihoods across the world. Debt cancellation finally released some countries from one debt trap, but the First World Debt Crisis shows yet again…
