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…
Blog from Grenada: Why the ‘Spice Isle’ has stopped paying its debts
It’s 10:30 at night and I’m trying a short cut through the grounds of an upmarket hotel in Grenada to get to my much cheaper room on the other side.…
MPs are wrong to call for more aid to be ‘given’ as loans
Our response to the International Development Select Committee's report on the future of aid.
Lending boom as IMF and World Bank account for almost half of loans
Figures released by the World Bank have revealed that lending to low income country governments is booming, increasing by 30 per cent in just one year. Almost half of the…
Philippines: The typhoon and the debt
Two weeks on from Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines, the British public have responded with incredible generosity, donating over £50 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee so far. Yet…
Grenada takes brave stand for debt justice
The tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, population 100,000, has stopped paying its £560 million debt. On Saturday, as the IMF and World Bank annual meetings got underway in Washington DC,…
Add your #NotOurDebt photo for Debt Week 2013
TAKE ACTION: Add your #NotOurDebt photo From 8-15 October, as part of Global Debt Week, we’re calling on people across the world to stand in solidarity against unjust debt. Here’s…
NOT OUR DEBT! Global Week of Action 8-15 October 2013
A call to mobilize on October 8 to 15, Global Week of Action Against ILLEGITIMATE DEBT & International Financial Institutions Debt payments, tax avoidance and capital flight are impoverishing people…
Ghana debt payments on the rise
Payments could reach 30 per cent of government revenue in 2020s. Ghana has recently been judged by the IMF and World Bank to be at moderate risk of not being…
UK government to give ‘aid’ as loans
Bilateral lending to come on top of aid already given as loans through the World Bank and others.
