Debt
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An ABC of the CADTM and a historical perspective on illegitimate debts
22 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
Founded in 1990, the Committee for the Cancellation of Illegitimate Debt (Comité pour l’Abolition des dettes illégitimes, earlier Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers-Monde [Committee for the Cancellation of Third-World Debt], the origin (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The International Monetary Fund: an ABC 2.0
10 December 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
The World Bank and the IMF are 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The World Bank: an ABC 2.0
13 November 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
The World Bank and the IMF are 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by (…) -
An ABC of the ailing World Trade Organization
18 February 2020 - by CADTM
The IMF and the World Bank were not the only institutions to emerge to consolidate the world’s economy after World War II. Discussions between Allies, mainly the United States and Great Britain, concluded with the notion of an international trade (…) -
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 1)
The World Bank: an ABC
3 February 2020 - by CADTM
In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF are 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (…) -
Debt Against the People: an ABC
29 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
Introduction Over the last ten years Greece has been a prime example of how a country and a people can be deprived of their liberty through clearly illegitimate debt. Since the 19th century, from Latin America to China, Haiti, Greece, Tunisia, (…) -
Third World Debt
16 May 2016 - by Damien Millet
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 (…) -
Définition of illegitimate, illegal, odious and unsustainable debts
21 May 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
In order to define the odious, illegitimate, illegal and unsustainable parts of the Greek public debt, the Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt set up by the President of the Hellenic Parliament will use the definitions that follow. These (…) -
Citizen debt audits: how and why?
4 January 2012 - by Damien Millet, Eric Toussaint
The question of the repayment of public debt is undeniably a taboo subject. The heads of State and governments, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the mainstream media present it as inevitable, (…) -
The Debt in figures
26 November 2000
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 to identify what (…)
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