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SOUTH AFRICA
New World Bank loan puts corporate power over people
8 November 2025 - by Amandla
The AIDC notes with deep concern the World Bank’s approval of a $1.5 billion loan to South Africa. This loan is not an act of charity from a benevolent international institution. The choice to pursue this foreign financing is a political choice (…) -
BRICS 2025 Questions and Answers Series (Part 6)
Are the New Development Bank and the BRICS Monetary Fund an alternative to the Bretton Woods institutions?
28 October 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
The necessary and legitimate disapproval of the policies pushed by the traditional imperialist powers (North America, Western Europe and Japan), followed by the announcements made by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), has (…) -
BRICS 2025 Questions and Answers Series (Part 4)
China and the IMF, supported by BRICS+, provided a lifeline to Javier Milei’s far-right government in Argentina
26 September 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In September 2025, after having presided over the country since December 2023, the neo-fascist Javier Milei suffered an electoral defeat in an important vote. The result was the election in the province of Buenos Aires. This election renewed 46 (…) -
BRICS 2025 Q&A Series (Part 3)
The BRICS are the new defenders of free trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank
17 September 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
BRICS+ is a diverse coalition consisting of 10 countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, joined in 2024 by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran). Notably some of these nations are direct allies of the (…) -
IMF-WB: Time to shut them down?
25 July 2025 - by CADTM International
The devastating impacts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) are evident in country after country, people after people, nature and climate. Through planned misery and austericide, coups d’état, and the support of (…) -
Confronting Financial Institutions’ Legacies in the Global South : 30 arguments against the World Bank and the IMF
3 June 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
We present the speech delivered by the CADTM spokesperson at a public forum held in Manila (Philippines) on June 2, 2025, organised by IIRE Manila in collaboration with CADTM. The forum took place at the University of the Philippines in the (…) -
Can pension systems be part of the fight for food sovereignty?
2 May 2025 - by GRAIN
On 31 March 2025, workers from all sectors in Belgium held a general strike that shut down much of the country. [1] Picket lines were formed in work places like petrochemical companies, ports, airports, supermarkets, hospitals and potato (…) -
How do creditors respond to defaults? [Part 3]
9 April 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
To avoid the risk of a cascade of defaults that followed the debt crisis from 2020-2022 (see part 2), what was the reaction of governments and international institutions such as the IMF? Faced with the crisis, governments (notably China) and (…) -
Assessing the new debt crisis in the South [Part 1]
21 March 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
After decolonisation, debt maintained the colonial yoke of the imperialist powers over the Glob-al South. Over-indebted nations sought assistance from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund during the 1980s debt crisis, and in (…) -
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 (…) -
Sudan: Debt, Maldevelopment, and the Challenge of Stability
20 January 2025 - by Elsadig Elsheikh
At the time of writing, Sudan remains at a dangerous crossroads. It can either be a state ruled by its diverse citizens’ desire for the rule of law, equitable and sustainable development, democratization, and justice for all, or it can fragment (…) -
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/IMF have clearly failed. An alternative policy is needed
27 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 (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The Case for Abolishing and Replacing the IMF and the World Bank
20 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 (…) -
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 (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
World Bank and IMF: 80 Years is Enough! Abolition!
6 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 (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity
30 October 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 (…) -
The World Bank mired in contradictions about poverty
23 October 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
In its recent publications, the World Bank notes that as a result of the coronavirus crisis 23 million more people will be living in extreme poverty in 2020-2021. Indeed it reported on 2 April 2024: ‘In 2022, 712 million people in the world were (…) -
Demanding Debt, Economic and Climate Justice!
23 October 2024 - by CADTM International, Collective
This year marks eighty years of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (IMF-WB) jointly designing and maintaining a global financial system that thrives on debt domination by rich countries, led by the G7, and the systemic (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The World Bank, the IMF and the respect of human rights
23 October 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 (…) -
1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The “gender equity” farce: a feminist reading of World Bank policies
25 September 2024 - by Camille Bruneau
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 (…) -
1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The IMF and the World Bank in the time of Coronavirus: the failed campaign for a new image
18 September 2024 - by Eric Toussaint, Emilie Paumard, Milan Rivié
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 (…) -
1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
The World Bank did not Foresee the Arab Spring Popular Uprisings and still Promotes the very same Policies that triggered them
11 September 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 (…) -
1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
Ecuador: Resistance against the policies imposed by the World Bank, the IMF and other creditors between 2007 and 2011
16 August 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 (…) -
1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF
14 August 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 (…)
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