International Institutions
-
Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC: How the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance
12 July 2018 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out of EU anti-tax avoidance policy. EU policy towards (...) -
UNCTAD: Debt warning lights flash for poorest countries, experts say
7 May 2018 - by UNCTAD
Top economists from UNCTAD and the International Monetary Fund agree it’s time to sound the alarm on rising public debt in many low-income countries but disagree on how loudly the bell should be rung. Mounting public debt in some of the world’s (...) -
2018 IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings: the Bank has more money, but promises little change
3 May 2018 - by María José Romero, Bodo Ellmers, Gino Brunswijck
The Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank took place amid warnings of a ‘borrowed boom’ as an uptick in global growth was matched by global debt levels reaching record highs. The World Bank Group shareholders stumped up for an increase in the (...) -
Sri Lanka: IFI’s, External debt and Microcredit
16 April 2018 - by B. Skanthakumar
The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from April 6 to April 8, 2018, with participants coming from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, Belgium and France. Around forty (...) -
The World Development Report produced by the World Bank almost completely ignores workers’ rights
12 April 2018 - by Peter Bakvis
The World Bank decided last year to devote the 2019 edition of its flagship annual policy review publication, the World Development Report, to the theme of the future of work. Preparation of the WDR 2019 encountered some delay after the ouster (...) -
Open letter to the International Monetary Fund on social protection
9 January 2018 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
ON December 21st 2017, the Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, sent jointly with several other UN human rights experts an open letter to the International Monetary Fund on the IMF’s approach to social (...) -
United Nations: The long and winding road to a binding corporate treaty
26 December 2017 - by Dorothy Guerrero
Dorothy Guerrero was with social movements from around the world in Geneva in october to push the United Nations to adopt a binding treaty on corporations and human rights. The struggle to make transnational corporations (or TNCs) accountable (...) -
Debt sustainability review: Tinkering around the edges while crises loom
19 December 2017 - by Tim Jones, Mark Perera
Under the joint Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) of the World Bank and IMF (Bretton Woods Institutions or BWIs), regular assessments of the risk of external debt distress are conducted for all countries that are eligible to borrow from either (...) -
ISDS in numbers
15 December 2017 - by Cecilia Olivet, Luciana Ghiotto, Bettina Müller
Impacts of investment arbitration against Latin America and the Carribbean Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are among the most affected by the investment arbitration system worldwide, representing 28.6% of all known investor-state (...) -
Ready for the next storm? Debt (crisis) management discussed at the UNCTAD and Paris Club
28 November 2017 - by Bodo Ellmers
The number of poor countries that are in debt crisis is increasing rapidly, as is the share of public revenue that southern governments need to divert from essential services to pay down debts. The international community is awaiting the storm (...) -
The European Union against Europe: Disobeying and Walking
8 November 2017 - by Daniel Albarracín
The purpose of this presentation is to contribute with some elements of the debate, focusing on the strategies that the progressive political forces in Europe has been developing. Debating with them we will try to build a useful proposal to open (...) -
The treaty on transnational corporations and human rights enters “negotiation mode”
2 November 2017 - by Stop corporate impunity
Geneva: November 1, 2017 – The Global Campaign, from October 23-27, 2017. Members of parliaments from more than 20 countries and the European Parliament[[For the list of signatories of the Inter-Parliamentary initiative for a UN Binding Treaty on (...) -
IMF needs radical reform to halt ‘failed policies’ of privatization and austerity – UN expert
26 October 2017 - by United Nations - Human Rights
NEW YORK (17 October 2017) – The lending policies of the International Monetary Fund are actively undermining some of the UN’s human rights and development priorities, as well as promoting the “failed” policies of privatization and “austerity”, a UN (...) -
Campaign improves IMF debt assessments, but risk of crises continues to increase
20 October 2017 - by Tim Jones
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 Debt Sustainability Framework, is important as it (...) -
ECB’s odious profits on the backs of the Greek people
17 October 2017 - by Eric Toussaint
Mario Draghi recently acknowledged that euro zone central banks had accumulated €7.8 bn in profits thanks to the Greek bonds the ECB (European Central Bank) bought in 2010-2012 as part of the SMP (Securities Markets Programme). To this must be (...) -
Debt relief for the hurricane-hit islands is the least we should do
14 October 2017 - by Tim Jones
As the devastation from recent hurricanes in the Caribbean becomes clearer, the calls for debt relief for affected countries grow stronger, writes Tim Jones ‘We have lost all that money can buy and replace,’ said Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime (...) -
‘Africa Rising’ in retreat: Signs of new resistances
29 September 2017 - by Patrick Bond
Capitalism is bleeding Africa to death: illegal financial flows, legal financial outflows, FDI flows, foreign indebtedness, sub-imperial accumulation, new subsidies for infrastructure financing and uncompensated mineral and oil and gas (...) -
Memorandum–steamroller for the Greek people
2 June 2017 - by Leonidas Vatikiotis
The prerequisites passed by a tiny majority 153 MPs (in an overall number of 300) of the Greek government on May 18th, equivalents to a new super-memorandum, as the new measures which further deepen the poverty extend up to 2021, three years (...) -
50 years of ADB : Debt, Destitution, Destruction, Disparity, & Displacement
30 May 2017 - by Sushovan Dhar, Ratan Bhandari, Hasan Mehdi
The Manila based Asian Development Bank (ADB) celebrated its 50th year at Yokohama from May 3-7, 2017 with a great display of extravagance and grandeur. Japan’s Crown Prince, Naruhito while inaugurating the 50th annual meeting emphasised on ADB’s (...) -
ADB in Bangladesh: More Than Four Decades of Pillage & Devastation
8 May 2017 - by Hasan Mehdi
The ADB was established in 1966 at the initiative of UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP). Two years after the great liberation war of 1971, it started working in Bangladesh. Since then (till 2016) Asian Development (...) -
World Economic Forum-Africa hosts a turf battle between Jacob Zuma and ‘white monopoly capital’
3 May 2017 - by Patrick Bond
At a time US and South African presidents Donald Trump and Jacob Zuma personify controversies over crony capitalism, corruption, populist rhetoric and self-serving economic strategies, will big business calm down the politicians – or just egg (...) -
ADB violates its own safeguard policies in Nepal Hydropower Project
27 April 2017 - by Ratan Bhandari
The 140 MW Tanahu Seti Hydroelectric Project (THP) is located in the Tanahu District of Nepal’s Western Development Region. It is a storage type hydropower project with a capacity of 140 MW. As part of the project, a dam with a height of 140 (...) -
How to apply unpopular austerity policies
22 April 2017 - by Eric Toussaint
In a document meant for government eyes, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – see Box - official Christian Morrison provides a number of recommendations. [1] The document makes one’s blood boil, and requires little (...) -
Global South debt payments increase almost 50% in two years
15 March 2017 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
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 meeting where interest rates are expected to be increased (...) -
Stop the ECB subsidising climate disaster
8 March 2017 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
Economic policy should contribute to the fight against social injustice and climate change, not support polluters and speculators. Since June 2016, the European Central Bank (ECB) has injected around 67 billion euro into the Eurozone economy (...)
- ICAN
- Agrarian Distress
- Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
- Alternatives
- Antifascism
- Arbitration
- Audit
- Austerity/Structural Adjustment
- Bank of the South
- Banks
- Belt and Road
- Big Pharma
- BRICS
- Capitalism
- Colonialism
- Commercial agreements
- Corporate Debt
- Corporate Impunity
- Corruption / financial criminality
- Crisis
- Debt campaign
- Debt crisis
- Debt in History
- Debt in Northern countries
- Development
- ECB
- Ecological debt
- Ecology
- External debt
- Feminisms
- Films
- Financial crisis
- G8 / G20
- Health
- Housing
- Illegitimate debt
- ILO
- IMF
- Imperialism
- Inequality
- Inflation
- Initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
- International law
- Microcredit
- Migrations
- Militarism
- Multinational corporation
- Natural Resources
- Neocolonialism
- Neoliberalism
0 | 50
CADTM
COMMITTEE FOR THE ABOLITION OF ILLEGITIMATE DEBT
8 rue Jonfosse
4000 - Liège- Belgique
00324 60 97 96 80
info@cadtm.org
Newsletter