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Stages in the new debt deflation fisher-minsky crisis

19 June 2009 - by Arturo Guillén R.

1. Introduction The aim of this paper is to analyze the current phase of the global crisis that began in the United States in 2007 as a financial crisis linked to sub-prime mortgages. The current phase, which began during the last quarter of (...)
When cashed-up IMF offers to help, steer well clear

6 May 2009 - by Ross Buckley

A year ago the International Monetary Fund was on the nose, its credibility in tatters. Today it is the darling of the rich countries. They have agreed in principle to increase its funding massively, nominally by a trillion dollars. On Anzac (...)
The doublespeak of a discredited IMF

12 March 2009 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The international crisis that broke in summer 2008 demolished all the neo-liberal dogmas and exposed the deception behind them. Unable to deny their failure, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim they no longer uphold the set (...)
Economists’ conference in Havana

Global crisis: the main protagonist

4 March 2009 - by Deisy Francis, Susana Lee

José Ramón Machado Ventura, Leonel Fernández y Esteban Lazo. Th global economic crisis was the main protagonist on the first day of Globalización 2009, the 9th International Conference of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems, (...)
Call for the signature of NGOs, trade unions and social movements Belem, February the 1^st of 2009

Let’s put finance in its place !

For a new economic and social model The financial crisis is a systemic crisis that emerges in the context of global crises (climate, food, energy, social…) and of a new balance of power. It results from 30 years of transfer of income from (...)
Press Release

Participants of South Asian Workshop call for a resistance to the anti-people policies of the World Bank, IMF, ADB and other IFIs

The debt campaigners and activists from South Asia including participants from Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and India that have assembled at Katmandu for the “2nd South Asian workshop on International Financial Institutions (...)
2^nd South Asian Workshop on International Financial Institutions and Debt

Bhutan political crisis, Debt scenario and International Financial Institution

15 January 2009 - by Mohan Tamang

Presented by Mohan Tamang, Democratic Youth of Bhutan, 15th Jan 2009
Capitalist Crisis and Alternatives

15 January 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Download the presentation of Eric Toussaint on Capitalist Crises and alternatives, in Katmandou for a South Asian CADTM network meeting.
G20: an inconsistent script to be thoroughly rewritten

17 November 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The G20 summit that brought together major industrialised and emergent countries in Washington on 15 November 2008 is a dismal failure. The international financial crisis is deep indeed, stock markets lost close to 40% of their capitalisation in (...)
Interview of Eric Toussaint by Radio France Internationale (RFI), Monday 27 October 2008 on 13H00 radio news.

« The IMF will take advantage of the present crisis to grant more and bigger loans. »

RFI: The IMF has decided to rescue many European countries such as Iceland, Ukraine, and today, Hungary, by granting them important loans. Why these particular countries according to you? Eric Toussaint: First of all it has to be clear that (...)
Another world is necessary and possible

3 November 2008 - by World March of Women

Financial Crisis Declaration, approved on the 20th October 2008, during the VII World March of Women International Meeting at Panxon, Vigo, Galicia In a context of patriarchy and neoliberal economics, the banking and finance system is in (...)
The interdependency of the capitalist crises

28 October 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

The explosion of the economic crisis, the financial crisis and the food crisis in 2007-2008 shows just how interdependent the economies of the world are. Resolving the situation calls for radical remidies. The economic and financial crisis. (...)
The global economic crisis: An historic opportunity for transformation

An initial response from individuals, social movements and non-governmental organisations in support of a transitional programme for radical economic transformation Beijing, 15 October 2008
LETTER TO LATIN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ON CRISIS AND ALTERNATIVES

To the Presidents of the Republics of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela Dear Presidents, Please receive the greetings of the undersigned social movements and (...)
Updated 24 September 2008

Third World: is another debt crisis in the offing?

25 September 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

While taking a significant toll on public revenues, repayment of public debt has, since 2004, ceased to be a major concern for most middle-revenue countries and for raw material exporting countries in general. In fact the majority of governments (...)
Who is the State working for: the banks or the public?

26 March 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

In many respects, the ongoing international financial crisis throws into sharp relief the deceit and denials of those who promote financial globalisation, whether they sit on the board of the big private banks or move in the higher spheres of (...)