CADTM

Destructive Development: the ADB's Privatization Agenda

People's front against IFI's — 2013-05-12T21:03:11Z

In the name of poverty reduction and sustainable development, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is promoting the transfer of natural wealth and public assets to private companies in India through loans and Technical Assistance (TA) in the transportation, energy, urban development, agriculture, water and public finance sectors. ADB supported infrastructure projects, Special Economic Zones (SEZs), urban expansion, industrial zones, information technology parks and industrial agriculture are (...) - English / India, International Financial Institutions (IFI)

Is the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountable?

People's front against IFI's — 2013-05-12T20:40:45Z

Since the emergence of International Financial Institutions (IFIs), the questions about their transparency and accountability have been sternly shielded and severely evaded by their founders. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established as a regional public multilateral development financing institution in 1966 in Manila to ‘rescue' Asia from acute poverty. Since then, the ADB- the torch bearer of 'Poverty Alleviation in Asia-Pacific' has grown from 31 member countries to 67 with annual (...) - English / India, International Financial Institutions (IFI)

Water crisis in Asia: ADB's Grand Design to Alienate People from Commons

People's front against IFI's — 2013-05-12T20:19:06Z

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s 2001 water policy loudly proclaims ‘Water for All'. With these words, the Bank takes pride in sharing its regional vision for this sector. It further pledges to put its finance and ‘knowledge' to rescue the countries in Asia-Pacific. However, it is important to note that the same ADB gave carte blanche to the controversial Dublin Principle, and spent close to $ 19 billion in this direction till 2010. A whopping $ 25 bn has been earmarked for the coming decade (...) - English / India, International Financial Institutions (IFI)

Agriculture, Water and Climate Change Nexus: ADB's New Found Mantra for Resource Exploitation

People's front against IFI's — 2013-05-12T18:53:12Z

While the world is witnessing the spectacle of emerging Asia, this comes as a tremendous stress to its cultivators and small farmers. A decrease of arable land with increasing number of stomachs depending on the produce, an exhaustion of finite natural resources, freshwater and natural disasters - all these are costs that small farmers of this continent have to pay for the growth. The projected decreases in agricultural crop yields resulting from the effects of climate change range from (...) - English / India, International Financial Institutions (IFI)

The International Situation and CADTM action between 2009 and 2013

Éric Toussaint — 2013-05-09T08:24:49Z

In the preamble to the CADTM International Political Charter adopted in Belém (Brazil) in January 2009, we state: In 1989, the Bastille Appeal was launched in Paris. It invited popular movements throughout the world to unite in demanding the immediate and unconditional cancellation of the debt of the so-called developing countries. This crushing debt, along with the neo-liberal macro-economic reforms imposed on the South since the debt crisis of 1982, had led to the explosion of (...) - English / Alternatives, Capitalism, Debt n Northern countries

IMF and World Bank hold their Spring Meetings making gloomy days for development

Bodo Ellmers, Stephanie Colin — 2013-05-05T22:04:00Z

The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank just ended in Washington DC and brought little promise of sunny days ahead for development.

- English / IMF, World Bank

What to do about the debt and the euro?

2013-05-05T10:22:55Z

The fight against the debt and austerity is the task of the day, such as fair measures defending the wages and pensions as well as the social services and common goods. In short, a popular strategy for a left government must be ready to do whatever necessary for this democratic fight. We stand for that strategy.

- English / Debt n Northern countries

The World Social Forum and its governance: a multi-headed monster

Francine Mestrum — 2013-04-27T11:00:42Z

The 12th World Social Forum (WSF) took place in Tunis, two years after the ‘Arab spring' that put an end to the old regime and put into place a government headed by Ennahda (‘renaissance movement'), an islamist political party. The Forum was a real success, politically and in terms of participation. Regional movements and youth were massively present, Tunisians experienced a real solidarity with their revolution, and all participants witnessed the re-engagement of the WSF with its best (...) - English / Social Forum

The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia

2013-04-27T08:54:08Z

We, the representatives of progressive political parties from the Mediterranean region, gathered in Tunis from March 23 to 24, 2013, at the call of the Popular Front, and adopted the following resolution. 1. - For more than a quarter of a century, neoliberal capitalist globalization has extended its dominance over the entire planet. The processes launched have accelerated the commodization of the world in favour of a minority and have confiscated peoples´ citizenship and nations´ (...) - English / Debt n Northern countries

To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present

2013-04-25T09:38:53Z

The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate. Today, the severity and multiplicity of weather changes – characterized by droughts, desertification, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, forest fires and the melting of glaciers and sea ice – indicate that the planet is burning. These extreme changes have direct impacts on humans through the loss lives, livelihoods, (...) - English / Social Forum, Climate crisis