Private debt
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The unfulfilled promises of microcredit: some new evidence
9 August 2024 - by CADTM, Stéphanie Jacquemont
The student movement in Bangladesh ousted Sheikh Hasina last Monday, August 5, 2024. A new interim government has been formed to restore order, end repression, and hold a fair election to facilitate a democratic transition of power. Nobel (...) -
Mexico: from AMLO to Sheinbaum
1 June 2024 - by Michael Roberts
Mexico has its general election this Sunday. With a population of over 130 million, Mexico is among the 15 largest economies in the world and the second-largest economy in Latin America. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, has been (...) -
The Platform of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
10 May 2024 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
Preamble The most significant manifestations of capitalist globalization involve banking crises, public and private debts, the consolidation of the debt system, alongside a myriad of other challenges such as economic, food, environmental, and (...) -
Geopolitical conflicts could exacerbate the new international debt crisis, which has already reached the record level of $313,000 billion, according to the IIF
16 April 2024 - by Fátima Martín
Geopolitical conflicts, which mean a sharp increase in defense expenditure, could exacerbate the new international debt crisis, which has already reached the record level of $313,000 billion, according to the Global Debt Monitor published by the (...) -
Ten takeaways: The palm oil scheme leaving Indonesian villagers submerged in debt
23 February 2024 - by The Gecko Project
As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia over the past two decades, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. Much of what was targeted belonged to, or was used by, indigenous and other rural communities. Perhaps (...) -
CADTM South Asia Annual Meeting
Modi’s India is more unequal than ever
23 February 2024 - by Sushovan Dhar, Maxime Perriot
At the CADTM South Asia annual meeting in Kathmandu on February 13 and 14, 2024, Sushovan Dhar took stock of the political, economic, and social situation in India and the challenges facing social movements in a country led by Narendra Modi, one (...) -
Joe Biden Could Cancel Student Debt for Everyone Right Now
29 July 2023 - by Ben Beckett
Earlier this month, the Biden administration automatically discharged student debt for more then 800,000 borrowers. The move shows that, if he wanted to, Joe Biden could cancel debt for everyone else right now. He’s not doing that. Good news: (...) -
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Have the Final Say on Student Debt
21 June 2023 - by Matt Bruenig
If the Supreme Court rules against Joe Biden on student debt, it will be a major blow. But there is a more straight forward path for Biden to unilaterally forgive a lot of student debt. In August of last year, Joe Biden announced that a (...) -
Morocco: The protest march on December 4, 2022, and its background
12 December 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Jawad Moustakbal
On Sunday, December 4, 2022, a national march was organised in the city of Rabat. It brought together some 3,000 people under the slogan “All together against the high cost of living, oppression, and repression”; it was organised by the national (...) -
History RePPPeated II : Why Public-Private Partnerships are not the solution
5 December 2022 - by Collective, Eurodad, Afrodad, Latindadd, ODG (Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización)
As CADTM, we publish this report but our demands on the issue are more radical: we call for an end to all forms of privatisation and to all public-private partnerships. In 2018, our report History RePPPeated – How Public-Private Partnerships (...) -
Colombo Declaration
4 December 2022 - by CADTM
We, the participants of the 9th CADTM South Asia meeting from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, as well as from Morocco, Belgium, Spain and France, assembled in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from December 2–4, 2022, reaffirm our fight against (...) -
CADTM South Asia workshop
25 November 2022 - by CADTM
Committee for Abolition if Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) South Asia Law & Society Trust (LST, Sri Lanka) and the Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR, Sri Lanka) COLOMBO, FRIDAY 02 – SATURDAY 03 DECEMBER 2022 The (...) -
Heavily indebted Humans Deserve Debt Relief (Just as Nations Do)
4 October 2022 - by Jami Hubbard Solli
From Argentina to Zambia, the global news is filled with stories of irresponsible, unsustainable lending to low-income governments which ultimately results in suffering for their own people. Suffering takes the form of austerity measures imposed (...) -
Student Debt Relief Is Undermining the Military’s Predatory Recruiting Practices
3 September 2022 - by Jordan Uhl
The US military has a long history of recruiting poor people by offering benefits like free college. With Joe Biden’s partial student debt forgiveness, GOP war hawks are fretting that the military won’t be able to prey on desperate young Americans (...) -
“Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset”: Calls Mount to Cancel Debt & Halt Wealth Transfer to the Rich
16 December 2021 - by Amy Goodman, Astra Taylor , Nermeen Shaikh
As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset,” animated by artist Molly Crabapple. The $15 trillion (...) -
Submission of the Collective of Women Affected by Microfinance to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery
8 December 2021 - by Collective
Debt is the most prevalent source of slavery. In contemporary Sri Lanka, unpayable debt accrued through microfinance loans has been driving exploitation, dispossession, and conditions resembling debt peonage. A chain of high-risk loans disbursed (...) -
Indian farmers script a victory
8 December 2021 - by Sushovan Dhar
Millions of Indians were greeted by pleasant news on 19 November as Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, announced his government’s intention to repeal the three contentious Farm Bills which were intended to ‘fix’ the country’s ailing (...) -
[VIDEO] FESTIVAL SESSIONS: Growing private debt, vulnerability and inequality in South Asia
7 September 2021 - by Farooq Tariq , Sushovan Dhar, Amali Wedagedara, Nalini Ratnarajah
Presented by: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU) India, Manitham Trust India, Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangh (BNPS), South Asia Tax and Fiscal Justice Alliance (SATaFJA). Session is (...) -
How Private and Public Debt Crises Exacerbate Housing Problems in the EU
9 June 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Eva Betavatzi
Abstract The increase in mortgage lending in European countries since the 1990s’ is symptomatic of a political determination to push households into buying rather than renting on the housing market. Banks benefit from this as it allows them not (...) -
Sri Lanka: Microfinance debt trap: Still awaiting reprieve
4 May 2021 - by Maheesha Mudugamuwa
Thousands of innocent villagers, especially in the Northern, Eastern, and North Central Provinces are holding protests to raise a collective cry against the longstanding issues related to the microfinance debt trap that had claimed the lives of (...) -
Interview with Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero
“Debt Is A War Against Women’s Autonomy”
22 April 2021 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero, Beatriz Ortiz Martínez
On the occasion of the publication the expanded edition and English translation of A Feminist Reading of Debt, Beatriz Ortiz Martínez, from CADTM, interviewed its authors Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero, researchers and professors in Buenos (...) -
Call for the Housing Action Day on 27 and 28 March 2021
26 March 2021 - by Collective
The Housing Action Day launched by the European Action Coalition for the right to Housing and the City will take place in 75 European cities! For more information on the mobilisations in Europe: https://housingnotprofit.org/housing-action-day/ (...) -
Sri Lanka’s household debt and the pound of flesh
15 March 2021 - by Amali Wedagedara
The complexity of the agrarian debt problem and the attractiveness of the idea of debt abolition made the cancellation of microfinance debt a popular campaign slogan during the Sri Lankan presidential election in November 2019. Women affected by (...) -
Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK
6 January 2021 - by Hector Rios-Jara
The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues. n years ago, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of London protesting against (...) -
World Bank: Investigate Cambodia’s Micro-Loans
5 January 2021 - by Human Rights Watch
The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today. These longstanding problems have worsened (...)
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