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Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary (Part 4)
SUNFED versus World Bank
by
Eric Toussaint31 July
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Bank of the South. An Alternative to IMF-World Bank
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by Eric Toussaint
29 July
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Nigeria: World Bank panel turns its back on forcibly evicted community
by Amnesty international
29 July
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Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary (Part 3)
Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandemby Eric Toussaint
28 July
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BRICS Bank: Is it an alternative for development finance?
by
Daniel Munevar28 July
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A major political move: the BRICS launch the New Development Bank and a reserve arrangement
by María José Romero
28 July
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Don´t Owe, Won´t Pay: YES to life, NO more vultures!
by Jubilee South/Americas
25 July
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The fool’s bargain of West African bananas’ producers who have demanded to sign the West Africa-EU EPA
by Jacques Berthelot
25 July
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Brickbats for the BRICS bank?
by John Weeks
23 July
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Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary (Part 2)
The WB assists those in power in a witch-hunting contextby Eric Toussaint
22 July
From 1950 to 1960, having no Marshall Plan to promote their growth, the developing countries proposed that a new UN body be created, based on a “one country, one vote” system designed to facilitate loans to their industries: SUNFED (Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development). The (...)
CADTM is very pleased to make available to a wide internet public, "Bank of the South" published by Vikas Adhyayan Kendra (VAK) in Mumbai (India) in 2007.
This book is a collection of articles by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet and Daniel Munevar about the creation of the Bank of the South and (...)
The decision by a World Bank Inspection Panel to refuse to investigate a complaint about forced evictions linked to a World Bank project in Lagos shows a complete disregard for its responsibilities, Amnesty International said today.
On Thursday evening, the Inspection Panel published its (...)
The World Bank and the IMF are specialized institutions of the UN, comparable in theory to the International Labour Organization (ILA) or the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As such, they are supposed to cooperate closely with the various UN bodies and the other (...)
On July 15th, the governments of Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa announced the creation of a New Development Bank (NDB). According to the official press release, the main objective of the new multilateral institution is to establish an alternative to the current set of (...)
The city of Fortaleza on the north-east coast of Brazil was the selected place for a major political move by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the so called BRICS nations - in mid July. After the 2013 fifth BRICS’s summit held in Durban, South Africa, expectations were raised for (...)
This past June 16th, the Supreme Court of the U.S. announced two highly pernicious decisions not only for Argentina and its people, but for all those who defend sovereignty and the primacy of human rights over the claims of big capital. The Court rejected Argentina´s appeal, leaving firm the (...)
We know that the main reason for the acceptance by the West Africa’s Heads of State to sign the regional EPA with the EU on July 10, 2014 in Accra comes from the pressures of Ivory Coast, and secondarily of Ghana, who risked losing duty free access to the European market mainly for their exports (...)
For many years officials of governments in African, Asian and Latin American have urged the creation of a "development" bank that they would control. On Tuesday 15 hopes become reality in Forteleza, Brazil with the formal creation of the New Development Bank by the leaders of the so-called (...)
Contrary to common belief, the mission of the World Bank is not to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Bank’s mission, as originally conceived by the victors of the Second World War, the United States and Great Britain in particular, was to help rebuild Europe, and secondarily to promote (...)
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