Privatizations

• Pakistan starts privatization of agriculture lands

  
  by Abdul Khaliq

  14 May 2009

  Arab companies rush for corporate farming in Pakistan to lock up scarce water resources in agriculture belts as Federal Government offers one million acres of agriculture land to Arab monarchs, giving way to new corporate feudal system of it own kind. During the last couple of years the extra ordinary increase in prices of staple commodities (wheat, rice, corn, soybeans and barley) have apparently compelled many states of the world including oil-rich Arab monarchies and Middle Eastern (...)

• Facing the food crisis: what alternatives?

  by Esther Vivas

  25 September 2008

  The food crisis has left thousands of people worldwide without food. With statistics showing 850 million hungry, the World Bank estimates that the current crisis increases that number by a hundred more. This ’tsunami’ of hunger is no natural process, but stems from the neoliberal policies of international institutions, imposed over decades. As we face this situation, what alternatives are being proposed? Is it possible to adopt different models of food production, distribution and (...)

• Natural Resources are the Common Goods of Humanity

  
  by CADTM

  20 July 2008

  Controlling the use of natural resources is one of the major concerns of all governments. However, large quantities of these natural resources are found in countries of the South (oil, metals, diamond, timber, etc.) and thus attract the great powers, such as the US, the EU or China, who have an imperative need for them to feed their economies. The consequences are often tragic for people in the Global South, who cannot benefit from their own resources. For instance the Democratic Republic (...)

• Someone must speak up for Kenyans

  by KENGO

  8 May 2008

  Kengo is a coordination of grass roots organizations in Kenya, which the CADTM international network collaborates with. Here is their call for a campaign of solidarity with Kenyans being illegally detained. Comrades, Hundreds of poor, sick Kenyans are being illegally detained after being discharged from government hospitals because they are too poor to afford their medical costs. This is unacceptable. Can you help? Someone must speak up for Kenyans. Despite the various promises by our (...)

• Chomsky: Poorer Countries Find a Way to Escape U.S. Dominance

  by Michael Shank

  1 March 2008

  The famous critic lays out the emerging alternatives to the U.S.-dominated international financial institutions of the last century.

• Plundering of Public Assets in Pakistan - A Chronology of Privatization - (1991-2006)

  
  by Abdul Khaliq

  30 January 2008

  (CADTM-Pakistan) Pakistan, under the gospel of market economy is aggressively pursuing the policy of market liberalization and privatization since 1991. Government of Pakistan during 1990s after being hit by economic downturn was forced to adopt Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) under IMF to reform economy suffering from macroeconomic instability. Under the SAP, it adopted the policy of market liberalization, privatization and deregulation. Pakistan, since then seems to have indulged (...)

• INDEPENDENT PEOPLES TRIBUNAL ON THE WORLD BANK

  World Bank officials shy away from participation ’TRIBUNAL FINDS UNDUE INFLUENCE OF BANK ON INDIA’S NATIONAL POLICIES’

  25 September 2007

  http://www.worldbanktribunal.org PRESS RELEASE 24 September 2007, New Delhi New Delhi: The four day Independent Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on the World Bank in India concluded here today hearing numerous depositions indicting the Bank’s policy and project interventions in India. While the World Bank India office did engage with the IPT and claimed they would make a deposition to respond to some of the evidence against the Bank, they failed to show up despite provision of adequate space and (...)

• Brazil prepares Plebiscite on Debt and Privatizations

  by Jubilee South/Americas

  19 August 2007

  Brazil : Popular referendum on Public Debt and Privatizations Jubilee South Brazil continues its struggle against the illegitimate debt on several fronts: the Citizens’ Debt Audit, training courses on the budget, and in particular the popular referendum to be held next September 1 to 7, similar to those held in 2000 on the External Debt and in 2002, on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The principal theme of this year´s plebiscite are the privatizations, in particular that of the (...)

• The Struggle for Latin America’s Water

  by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke

  14 August 2004

  Water privatization provokes a political backlash as Latin Americans take the global lead in demanding water democracy. Latin America is blessed with an abundance of fresh water. The region contains four of the world’s 25 largest rivers-the Amazon, Paraná, Orinoco and Magdalena-and their combined run-off of 5,470 cubic miles almost equals the combined run-off of the other 21. Some of the world’s large lakes are also located in Latin America, including Maracaibo in Venezuela, Titicaca in Peru (...)

• Dogmatic Development: Privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

  by War on Want, PSIRU

  7 April 2004

  This report looks at how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services. It focuses specifically on the sectors of water, electricity, and healthcare, in six countries: Colombia; El Salvador; Indonesia; Mozambique; South Africa; and Sri Lanka. It examines the impact of the requirements and policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), and other agencies including (...)

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