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The Debt in figures
8 May 2009
A necessary tool to understand the current global crisis, the data collected here by Damien Millet and Eric Toussaint (CADTM) should enable us to make sense of one of the basic reasons for the international situation, as seen from the viewpoint of the global South. From the 1960s to today’s global crisis, the international network of the CADTM has constantly kept a critical eye on the world economy and the mechanisms of domination that affect it. Analysing various statistics is essential (...)
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Third World Debt?
1 January 1999
Accounting for the Third World Debt Third World indebtedness involves four categories of agents and a threefold external shock : 1. Banks in the North Towards the end of the 80s, banks in the North found that they had too many ’eurodollars’ (delocalised dollars) and soon also too many ’petrodollars’ (oil-derived dollars). Aware that ’money must not sleep’, they set off to lend huge amounts to governments in the South at high interest rates without bothering at all about a significant (...)
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1 January 1999
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z B BALANCE OF PAYMENTS C CENTRAL BANK D DEBT RESCHEDULING DEBT SERVICE DEBT STOCK DEVALUATION E EXPORT CREDIT AGENCY F FOOD CROPS G G8 GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMO) GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT (GNP) H HEAVILY (...)
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A necessary tool to understand the current global crisis, the data collected here by Damien Millet and Eric Toussaint (CADTM) should enable us to make sense of one of the basic reasons for the international situation, as seen from the viewpoint of the global South. From the 1960s to today’s global crisis, the international network of the CADTM has constantly kept a critical eye on the world economy and the mechanisms of domination that affect it. Analysing various statistics is essential (...) 
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