There's no doubt that Nadia Valavani's text, which we publish below, is both an unexpected and extremely welcome surprise.

Debt-for-nature swaps are back to the forefront of the international stage. Promoted as being an innovative solution to reduce the debt of countries of the South while financing the preservation of ...

Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough ! The World Bank: an ABC 2.0 ...

“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. In 2022, there were around 51 million people who were born outside of the country living in the United States, and nearly 11 million ...

The Sri Lankan government is currently facing a significant burden due to high interest costs on Treasury Bonds, which is severely constraining the fiscal space available for critical social ...

We, the participants of the 11 th CADTM South Asia meeting, hailing from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, as well as Morocco, the Philippines, Brazil, Belgium and Spain, convened in Colombo, ...

At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, held from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Fernanda Gadea denounced Fortress Europe and its Frontex system. The policies pursued are ...

The Budget 2025 illustrates the drudgery of making ends meet inside a debtors’ prison. The Appropriation Bill for Budget 2025 reveals the fiscal squeeze and constraints imposed by the IMF program and ...

According to the doctrine, for a debt to be odious it must meet two conditions: 1) It must have been contracted against the interests of the Nation, or against the interests of the People, or against ...

This strategy mainly refers to a well-documented experiment in Latin America in the 1930s and 1940s, and research carried out by the CEPAL (the UN Economic Commission for Latin America – ECLA) in the ...

In 1996 the IMF and the World Bank launched an initiative aimed at reducing the debt burden for some 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), whose total debts amount to about 10% of the Third World ...

The Financial Stability Board is an informal economic group that was created during the G20 meeting in London in April 2009. It succeeded the FSF (Financial Stability Forum) that had functioned since ...