Bank of the South. An Alternative to IMF-World Bank
29 July 2014 by Eric Toussaint
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CADTM is very pleased to make available to a wide internet public, “Bank of the South” published by Vikas Adhyayan Kendra (VAK) in Mumbai (India) in 2007.
This book is a collection of articles by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet and Daniel Munevar about the creation of the Bank of the South and the need for a new global financial architecture.
The text has been updated and includes a new contribution from Daniel Munevar on the Brics Bank and the Bank of the South BRICS Bank: Is it an alternative for development finance?.
It may be freely copied by other sites and reproduced for non profit uses. Please clearly indicate the CADTM website as the source (www.cadtm.org). Feel free to send your comments and information on the personal or collective use you make of this book to info at cadtm.org. Your messages will be forwarded to the authors.
Eric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist, President of the CADTM, member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, author of “Your Money or Your Life! The Tyranny of Global Finance” , “The World bank : A never ending coup d’etat”, co-author of “Le bateau ivre de la mondialisation. Escales au sein du village planétaire” (2000), of “Afrique : abolir la dette pour libérer le développement” (2001).
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in english by Eric Toussaint (627)
- The Debt Trap and the interlinked Crises
6 October, by Eric Toussaint , Lidy B. Nacpil , Ahilan Kadirgamar
- Chile: 50 years after the disgrace Neoliberalism at gun point
7 September, by Eric Toussaint , Roberto González Amador
- Éric Toussaint: “There are not enough leaders ready to stand up to debt creditors.”
1 September, by Eric Toussaint , Jorge Muracciole
- Resisting the Debt System
10 August, by Eric Toussaint , Ashley Smith
- Resisting the shock doctrine
15 July, by Eric Toussaint , Sushovan Dhar , Yuliya Yurchenko
- Economists of the world say yes to the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador
13 July, by Eric Toussaint , Alberto Acosta , Pierre Salama , Joan Martínez Alier , Wilma Salgado , Rosa Sueiro , Aleida Azamar
- The World Bank A Critical History
3 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Disgust and revulsion : double standards for human lives
22 June, by Eric Toussaint
- Deeper than ever, the crisis leaves capitalism out of breath
20 June, by Eric Toussaint
- Does the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have enough resources to deal with a major banking crisis? And what about Europe?
14 June, by Eric Toussaint
- Debt ceiling: Radio Silence Concerning United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s Repudiation of Debts
28 May, by Eric Toussaint
- Ukraine: Resisting creditors
23 May, by Eric Toussaint , Sushovan Dhar
- Debt : Eric Toussaint at Université Paris Cité on January 31, 2023
20 May, by Eric Toussaint
- Resisting the Shock Doctrine: Ukraine, Debt, and Reconstruction
12 May, by Eric Toussaint , Sushovan Dhar , Ashley Smith , Yuliya Yurchenko
- The urgent need to repudiate debt
6 April, by Eric Toussaint , Anaïs Carton
- The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
20 March, by Eric Toussaint
- ABC of Debt System
6 March, by Eric Toussaint
- The 1953 London Debt Agreement on Germany’s debt
26 February, by Eric Toussaint
- From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public debt today and in the history of capitalism
26 February, by Eric Toussaint , Anis Germany
- The World Bank and IMF have set their sights on East Timor, a state officially born in May 2002
11 January, by Eric Toussaint
Other publications in English :
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The World Bank A Critical History
3 July - Eric Toussaint -
Africa : the debt trap and how to get out of it
27 March - CADTM -
Greece 2015: There was an alternative
6 October 2020 - Eric Toussaint -
Impact of European policies on the Global South and possible alternatives
8 September 2020 - ReCommons Europe -
Package of common demands on debt and the need for citizens’ control on finance at European level - Executive summar
3 August 2020 - CADTM, Collective
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