South African should be wary about long term repercussions of new IMF loans
5 June 2020 by Patrick Bond
Amidst this raging debate about the role of IMF loans to pull out countries from the economic mess triggered by the outbreak of the pandemic, Patrick Bond, professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government in an interview to Radio Islam International warns us about the impacts of such loans. He insists that instead of solving the crisis, the IMF loans will drag countries into further mess with long-term implications.
is professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government in Cape Town, and co-editor of BRICS and Resistance in Africa (published by Zed Books, 2019).
Other articles in English by Patrick Bond (81)
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Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
13 January, by Patrick Bond , Ana Garcia , Miguel Borba
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As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across
2 January, by Patrick Bond
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Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment: Economic pressures from above, social reaction from below
22 September 2020, by Patrick Bond
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World Bank’s rating obsession will negate debt justice
31 August 2020, by Patrick Bond , Dominic Brown
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Should South Africa Follow the Law of the Jungle – or the Doctrine of Odious Debt?
30 April 2020, by Patrick Bond
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Subimperial BRICS enter the Bolsonaro-Putin-Modi-Xi-Ramaphosa Era
13 March 2020, by Patrick Bond
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Who really ‘state-captured’ South Africa? Revealing silences in poverty, inequality and structurally-corrupt capitalism
2 March 2020, by Patrick Bond
Series: Adverse International and Local Conditions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 6)
New Threats, New Resistances and New Alternatives12 November 2019, by Eric Toussaint , Patrick Bond , Ishmael Lesufi , Lisa Thompson
Series: Adverse International and Local Conditions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 5)
Local South African Economic Conditions6 November 2019, by Eric Toussaint , Patrick Bond , Ishmael Lesufi , Lisa Thompson
Series: Adverse International and Local Conditions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 4)
Africa’s Renewed Crises of Unbalanced Trade, Disinvestment, Debt29 October 2019, by Eric Toussaint , Patrick Bond , Ishmael Lesufi , Lisa Thompson
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Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt
11 February - Yanis Iqbal -
IMF’s continued VAT push inconsistent with rhetoric on progressive taxes
6 January - Bretton Woods Project -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
23 December 2020 - Eric Toussaint -
The IMF and the World Bank in the time of Coronavirus: the failed campaign for a new image
9 November 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Emilie Paumard, Milan Rivié -
The World Bank, the IMF and the respect of human rights
25 October 2020 - Eric Toussaint
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The external debt of Developing Countries: a Timebomb
22 February - Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié -
Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt
11 February - Yanis Iqbal -
Ecuador: Historic urban vote against large scale mining in referendum
8 February - Miriam Lang -
Stand with Africans to Cancel the debt!
5 February - CADTM Africa , Womin -
South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?
30 January - Rehad Desai, South African Federation of Trade Unions
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South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?
30 January - Rehad Desai, South African Federation of Trade Unions -
As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across
2 January - Patrick Bond -
Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment: Economic pressures from above, social reaction from below
22 September 2020 - Patrick Bond -
World Bank’s rating obsession will negate debt justice
31 August 2020 - Patrick Bond, Dominic Brown -
Unleashing the power of pension funds and debt cancellation to finance a just energy transition
25 August 2020 - Dominic Brown
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