All the articles

Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

The Hospital that makes you sicker

24 March 2004 - by New Internationalist

Developing countries were being told: “There is no debate. There is no other way.” It was intellectually dishonest.
World Bank and ADB’s Role in Privatizing Water in Asia

12 March 2004 - by P. Raja Siregar

Extending access to clean water for the poor and improving water management has, in fact, been used as the main campaign of the World Bank and as the basis for ADB’s water policies. Unfortunately, these very water policies already spell more harm (...)
The World Bank’s Land of Kiosk: ’Community Driven Development" in East Timor

12 March 2004 - by Ben Moxham

As the dust cleared in the aftermath of the Indonesian military orchestrated chaos following the August 30th, 1999 vote for independence, the World Bank arrived ... While the UN focused on elections, law and order and creating an interim (...)
Bankrupt Africa

12 March 2004 - by Patrick Bond

Debt peonage continues, courtesy of Washington, Monterrey and NEPAD.
Beside World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai

India facing the challenge of globalisation

11 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint, Denise Comanne

Beside World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai, five snapshots on the Indian reality.
World Bank / IMF / WTO Trio

8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

The World Bank and the IMF formed a duo that took upon itself both to impose neo-liberal discipline on the indebted countries. The control mechanism was reinforced with the creation of the World Trade (...)
The odious debt of Russia, the new oligarchs and the Bretton Woods institutions

8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

The IMF and the World Bank got Russia into debt. A large part of the money lent has been embezzled and is back in the West. Western bankers, Russian oligarchs and government officials got rich while the impoverished Russian citizens have to foot (...)
Anne Krueger, the White Knight of globalisation

8 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF: “Our central role is to facilitate the process of globalization. In a very real sense, that is what we exist for”.
Enron and Co. - the fiasco of the new USA-style economy

1 March 2004 - by Eric Toussaint

Twenty years of deregulation and market liberalization on a planetary scale have eliminated all the safety barriers that might have prevented the cascade effect of crises of the Enron type.
NGOs File Civil Lawsuit Against Govt’s Pro-IMF Policies

1 March 2004 - by Urip Hudiono

Three non-governmental organizations filed a lawsuit against President Megawati Soekarnoputri on Thursday at the Central Jakarta District Court for issuing Presidential Instruction No. 5/2003 on an economic policy package with International (...)
Argentina

The Human Face Of Economics

1 March 2004 - by Ann Scholl , Facundo Arrizabalaga

... It is time to recognize these debts as odious, instead of creating more hunger, more deaths and more ’economic’ terror ...
Doing nothing for Ethiopia

A briefing by Jubilee Research at New Economics Foundation

This briefing is produced by Jubilee Research — 20 years after Live Aid, and one year after Ethiopia’s worst drought in history. We explain how G7 creditors, having promised substantial debt relief, have stalled the disbursement of relief, and are (...)
Free Market Corruption, Neo-liberal Pretexts

Poor People Can’t Be Engineers

Newsweek recently ran an article on money laundering in Latin America. It identified Nicaragua’s ex-President Arnoldo Aleman as one of a super-corrupt elite along with Mexico’s Carlos Salinas and Guatemala’s Alfonso Portillo. But, these individuals (...)
Argentine President Faces Off With IMF

25 February 2004 - by Roger Burbach

President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina is emerging as the leading nemesis of the International Monetary Fund and the private financial speculators in South America ...
The Debt Scam

16 February 2004 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

For the last 20 years, despite their innumerable natural and human resources, the Third World countries have been milked dry. The debt is also a subtle mechanism of domination and a new method of colonisation, hindering any sustainable human (...)
World Social Forum, Mumbaï 2004

Call of the Social Movements

We the social movements united in Assembly in the city of Mumbai, India, share the struggles of the people of India and all Asians. We reiterate our opposition to the neoliberal system which enerates economic, social and environmental crises and (...)
Iraq

Hold Bush to His Lie

13 February 2004 - by Naomi Klein

Iraq’s occupiers just negotiated an $850 million loan from the International Monetary Fund, giving the lender its usual leverage to extract future economic “adjustments.”
World Social Forum, Mumbaï 2004

The Rising Strength of the World Social Forum

9 February 2004 - by Immanuel Wallerstein

The recent 4th meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was a big step forward in the steadily rising strength of the World Social Forum.
World Social Forum, Mumbaï 2004

Debt Under the Lula Presidency

28 January 2004 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli

Conference about the options of Lula`s government on debt policy, tax policy, financial flows, and the experience of Citizen Auditing in Brazil, movement who understand that the process of indebtedness of the countries of the third world is (...)
World Social Forum, Mumbaï 2004

How to Finance Human Development Without Debt

28 January 2004 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli

Contribution of the UNAFISCO SINDICAL - Union of Tax Fiscals of the Brazilian Federal Government - to the debate about the possibility of a World of Justice and respect for all human beings, a world without (...)

0 | ... | 3040 | 3060 | 3080 | 3100 | 3120 | 3140 | 3160 | 3180 | 3200 | 3220

Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

All the articles

Translation(s)