The EU Court of Auditors have released a report today which says that “EU co-financed Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) cannot be regarded as an economically viable option for delivering public…
Finance Ministers of low income Francophone countries have called for a range of measures to ensure the costs of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are transparent. In a communique at the IMF…
A new manifesto has been launched by civil society organisations from all over the globe, to condemn this exploitative financial practice
A new debt crisis has begun in impoverished countries. The UK needs to take responsibility now for the debt contracted under English law. Read the 4 page briefing here. Summary A…
The IMF and World Bank have agreed some positive changes to their system for monitoring debts of impoverished countries, though some large issues have been ignored. The system, known as…
The IMF has completed the fourth review of its programme in Ghana, agreeing to disburse a further $95 million of loans, taking total loans to $565 million. The IMF has…
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…
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…
This short educational resource (12 pages) explains why Ghana is back in a debt crisis a decade after debt relief, and what options the country has now. A new debt crisis…
• Government external debt payments reach highest level in the last decade following commodity price falls and rising value of the US dollar • Figures released before US Federal Reserve…
