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Some useful reminders about Dominique Strauss-Kahn

2 June 2011 - by Jérôme Duval

► He served as Minister of Industry and International Trade from 1991 to 1993, during which he participated in the trade negotiations of the Uruguay Round, preparatory to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). ► In 1994, he (...)
The World Bank and IMF wish you a (bumpy) global economic recovery at the Spring Meetings

22 April 2011 - by Jeroen Kwakkenbos, Nuria Molina

The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) took place against a backdrop of the global economic recovery, with the North African democratic revolutions and the Japanese nuclear crises at the forefront of (...)
CADTM South Asia meets in Colombo, Sri Lanka

17 December 2010 - by Stéphanie Jacquemont

From 9 to 11 December 2010, a series of activities were attended by delegates of CADTM from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Belgium in Colombo. The monsoon, which usually prevails in this region from May to September, was invited to the party, (...)
4^th CADTM South Asia Workshop

The IMF & Word Bank in the aftermath of the global crisis

10 December 2010 - by Stéphanie Jacquemont

Presentation during the 4th CADTM South Asia Workshop, 9 december 2010
IFI-induced debt catastrophes?

Natural disasters in Haiti and Pakistan have heightened calls for larger debt cancellation, rather than new IMF loans, and for a rethink of the sovereign debt system. Even before massive August floods pushed more than 10 million people to need (...)
Presentation during South Asia workshop

Jute Economy of Bangladesh: A case study of IFI-led Privatization

21 December 2009 - by A.K.M. Masud Ali

Presentation during South Asia workshop
A Stronger IMF and World Bank: Threat To Peoples of Both the South and North

12 October 2009 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet, Renaud Vivien

The annual meetings of the IMF and of the World Bank in Istanbul ended in a climate of repression. For the second consecutive day, the 10,000 policemen who had been called upon for the occasion used water cannons, tear gas and tanks against (...)
The global food price crisis - a critique of orthodox perspectives

10 July 2009 - by Walden Bello

Capitalist industrial agriculture, with its wrenching destabilisation and transformation of land, nature, and social relations is responsible for today’s food crises, argues Walden Bello. In an extract from his forthcoming book Food Wars, (...)
Small hopes for a shift leftwards in economy

9 July 2009 - by Patrick Bond

A COUPLE of Nobel prize-winning economists are giving major talks in Joburg this week. Many in civil society hope the visits by two of global capitalism’s best-known critics can pull local economic policy debates further leftwards: towards (...)
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 (...)
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

IFIs, Pakistan & War on Terrorism

15 January 2009 - by Abdul Khaliq

Presented by Abdul Khaliq, CADTM Pakistan.
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
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 (...)
International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt

Resolution of solidarity and support for the people of Haiti

Between August 15 and September 7, 2008, the Caribbean was severely hit by four successive hurricanes (Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike) that devastated several regions with disastrous consequences in particular for the peoples of Cuba, the Dominican (...)
South/North Dialogue – Quito – 10-15 September 2008

International Conjuncture. Short version

5 September 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

In 1982, the epicentre of the debt crisis was in the South and the first casualties were the governments of the developing countries, who suddenly found themselves owing enormous amounts in debt repayments. In August 2007, a debt crisis (...)
South/North Dialogue – Quito – 10-15 September 2008

International Conjuncture. Full version

5 September 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

In 1982, the external public debt crisis of the developing countries was triggered by the combined effects of the rise in interest rates imposed by the United States two years earlier, and the fall in prices of raw materials, particularly oil. (...)
The perils of a doha deal on services

9 July 2008 - by Walden Bello

Desperate to clinch a new global trade deal, World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy is planning to convene a “mini-ministerial” meeting in the third week of July. The aim of the meeting is to come up with agreements on trade in agriculture, (...)
The CADTM delegation to UNDP for a consultation on debt.

23 June 2008 - by Myriam Bourgy

The major highlights of the year 2008 for the developmental world is two international conferences, the first at Accra, next September on aid effectiveness and the second at Doha at the end of November on financing development. The first (...)
FAO: more free trade, more hunger

18 June 2008 - by Esther Vivas

The high level summit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (the FAO) held in Rome on Food Security ended on June 5. The conclusions of the gathering do not indicate a change in the policy trends which have been in force (...)
Global Famine

1 June 2008 - by Michel Chossudovsky

Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local (...)
IMF: The Times They Are A-Changin’

25 April 2008 - by Robert Weissman

Have things changed at the International Monetary Fund? Or is the world just witnessing yet another in a long series of global economic double standards? IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn says that the “need for public intervention” (...)
Bankers saved, human rights sacrificed

16 April 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The randomness of numbers sometimes throws up some striking coincidences. Behind the shadow plays conjured up by the zealous servants of neoliberal globalisation, the brutal backstage reality revealed itself this week, through the publication of (...)
Food Price Crisis Draws Attention at IMF/World Bank Meetings

15 April 2008 - by Soren Ambrose

It was easy to predict that the global credit crisis would be a major concern at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings. But while that was true, it was clearly the case that the heads of the two institutions were intent on focusing attention on (...)