debt
IMF: Global economy faces worst recession since the Great Depression –...
By Graeme Wearden and Jasper Jolly
Tue 14 Apr 2020
Closing summary: World economy braces for depression
The International Monetary Fund today warned that the world...
The Revolt of the South, or the imperative to build a...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
04/11/2020
Spanish (Socialist) Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has now taken the initiative to call for more solidarity inside the EU to confront the...
Health spending in poor countries must double immediately to prevent millions...
27th March 2020
Oxfam today called for a package of nearly $160 billion in immediate debt cancellation and aid to fund a Global Public Health...
Pourquoi l’annulation de la dette allemande de 1953 n’est pas reproductible...
par Eric Toussaint
Mar. 27, 2018
En 2019, la Banque mondiale (BM) et le FMI atteignent l’âge de 75 ans. Ces deux institutions financières internationales (IFI), créées...
Annuler la «dette publique» : le plaidoyer d’un ambassadeur grec
Par Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos
9 avril 2020
Le gouvernement grec a annoncé cette semaine des mesures pour soulager la détresse des personnes touchées financièrement à cause des...
The EU crisis
Corona Bonds: Administer with Caution
By Sergi Cutillas, Albert Medina,
Pablo Cotarelo, Marc Lascorz
March 27, 2020
Once again, the Covid-19 crisis has exposed the Eurozone’s weaknesses....
BlackRock Takes Command
by Joyce Nelson
April 8, 2020
The mainstream financial press has been remarkably quiet about the Federal Reserve’s appointment (March 24) of BlackRock to manage its...
Comment annuler la dette pour redémarrer l’économie
Par Jean - Luc Mélenchon
Apr. 7, 2020
Si l’on en croit Le Monde, « Les Républicains » ont une vision sur l’économie. Dommage qu’on ne sache rien...
Europe’s future is at stake in this war against coronavirus
Our citizens are dying and our hospitals overwhelmed. Either we respond with unwavering solidarity or our union fails, writes the Spanish prime minister
By Pedro...
Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for...
Photo: Hermann Josef Abs signing the London agreement canceling German foreign debt on 27 February 1953.
By Eric Toussaint
Mar. 27, 2018
In 2020, the World Bank...