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 (83)
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Measuring Capital’s Super-Exploitation of People and Nature in South Africa: First-Cut Empirical Evidence drawing upon Rosa Luxemburg’s Methodology
7 April, by Patrick Bond
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Learning from Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, banking and crisis tendencies
25 March, by Patrick Bond
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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
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Global Austerity Alert: Looming Budget Cuts in 2021-25 and Alternatives
5 May - Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins -
Why are Kenyans trolling the IMF?
21 April - Ciku Kimeria -
The IMF Is Using the Debt Crisis to Hollow Out Pakistan’s Sovereignty
20 April - Ammar Ali Jan -
IMF and debt: a new consensus?
16 April - Michael Roberts -
Ecuador: Resistance against the policies imposed by the World Bank, the IMF and other creditors between 2007 and 2011
15 April - Eric Toussaint
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An unsustainable burden of debt afflicts the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa
10 May - Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié -
Puerto Rico’s Multi-layered Crisis
5 May - Rafael Bernabe -
Debt and Covid-19 in Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines and Zambia
3 May - Eurodad -
Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a serious debt crisis
3 May - Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié -
The Pandemic Papers: Reviews of Covid-19’s impact on debt and development finance
30 April - Eurodad
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Measuring Capital’s Super-Exploitation of People and Nature in South Africa: First-Cut Empirical Evidence drawing upon Rosa Luxemburg’s Methodology
7 April - Patrick Bond -
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
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