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Water Privatization: The WB’s Latest Market Fantasy

9 January 2004 - by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke

The impacts of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programs on countries in the Global South have been well-documented in the areas of health and education, food security and jobs. However, less is known about the impacts of the World (...)
Transfers from the Periphery to the Centre, from Labour to Capital

8 January 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

Public opinion is convinced that the North is trying to help the South. In fact there is a massive transfer of the social surplus created by salaried workers and small producers in the South towards the ruling classes of industrialised and Third (...)
The globalist project in crisis

The Economics of Empire

5 January 2004 - by Walden Bello

We have, in short, entered a historical maelstrom marked by prolonged economic crisis, the spread of global resistance, the reappearance of the balance of power among center states, and the reemergence of acute inter-imperialist (...)
Coffee and State Authority in Columbia

5 January 2004 - by Josh Frank

The debt has forced the country to expand production of exports to generate hard currency. This macro-expansion has contributed to the overproduction of coffee beans. The impact has been great, as export revenues for multinational corporations (...)
Not Neo-con, Just Plain Greed

The Iraqi debt and the US administration

5 January 2004 - by Naomi Klein

Contrary to all predictions, the heavy doors of Old Europe weren’t slammed in James Baker’s face as he asked forgiveness for Iraq’s foreign debt. France and Germany appear to have signed on, and Russia is softening its (...)
Global Warming - Whose ecological debt?

4 January 2004 - by C E Karunakaran

Civil society in the South needs to work closely with the civil society in the North to ensure that the truth about global warming and issues of equity reach the people of both the South and the (...)
The Specter of “Alter-Globalization”

4 January 2004 - by Aleksandr Buzgalin

The specter is haunting the world, the specter of “anti-globalization”. Bushes and Blairs, Liberals and Stalinists, fundamentalists and chauvinists are united in their efforts to exorcise this (...)
Onthe way to Mumbaï

Another World is Possible. After All!

26 December 2003 - by Eric Toussaint

Those who say globalisation is unavoidable should realise that they can be bypassed or overthrown.
Three Lessons for Latin America

Seven Myths About NAFTA

30 November 2003 - by Alejandro Nadal, Francisco Aguayo, Marcos Chávez

the Bush administration and international financial bodies insisted that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) was the region’s best economic integration choice, as well as the solution to the development crisis in Latin American and (...)
People Pour into Miami

Original FTAA Draft Scrapped

28 November 2003 - by Walden Bello

The United States will try to paint the Miami meeting of the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA) as a success, but the reality is that the opponents have pulled off a victory.
Insurrection in Bolivia

The IMF & the Bolivian crisis

15 October 2003 - by Tom Kruse

The current crisis in Bolivia is social, economic and political. These three areas of crisis are clearly linked to policies imposed by the international financial institutions, in particular the International Monetary (...)
The odious iraqui debt

25 September 2003 - by Eric Toussaint

For 20 years the big powers have avoided putting the issue of odious debt into the spotlight, whilst the governments of the indebted countries didn’t contest their odious debt. Suddenly in April 2003, the idea of odious debt appears in the (...)
The myths and dangers of PRSPs

25 September 2003 - by Demba Moussa Dembélé

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), required by the IMF and the World Bank for access to debt relief and concessional assistance, are loaded with a number of myths that should be debunked.
Gender Implications of Bank Privatization in Developing Countries

6 May 2003 - by Sara Hlupekile Longwe

It is now common, in developing countries, that the IMF and World Bank make privatization of economic enterprises a pre-condition for balance of payments support, and for development aid.
Iraq, War, Debt and the G8

26 April 2003 - by Eric Toussaint

Some days after the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, George W Bush gave an estimate to Congress that the cost of the war for the US Treasury would reach 80 billion dollars. According to the UNDP and UNICEF, that is precisely the annual sum (...)
Jubilee South e-Bulletin

Jubilee South pursues campaign vs. illegitimacy of debt in World Social Forum III

29 March 2003 - by Jubilee South

Jubilee South activities in the World Social Forum III bore an international articulation of various strategies in addressing and overcoming the illegitimacy of debt and related issues on (...)
Interview with Eric Toussaint

World Social Forum: from Porto Alegre to India: Making the other globalisation universal

20 March 2003 - by Sergio Ferrari

After 3 consecutive successful meetings in Porto Alegre, the World Social Forum (WSF) will move to India in 2004, and return to Brazil in 2005. A geographical move with implications in terms of methodology, participation and even political (...)
Poverty Reduction? or PRSP?

11 March 2003 - by Shalmali Guttal

PRSPs will create and entrench policy-induced poverty. They will have little to do with poverty reduction in any meaningful sense. But they will certainly strengthen the grip of the Washington Consensus on the policy environments of recipient (...)
PRSP in Pakistan

6 March 2003 - by Collective

The PRSP process does not offer anything other than regurgitation of old policies and practices. Therefore, it is unlikely that the results will be any different from what they always have (...)
Porto Alegre, Brazil - January 2003

Call of the World Social Movements

We call for all networks, popular and social movements to sign this statement.

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Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

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