The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad's tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they ...
In 1996 the IMF and the World Bank launched an initiative aimed at reducing the debt burden for some 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), whose total debts amount to about 10% of the Third World ...
According to the doctrine, for a debt to be odious it must meet two conditions: 1) It must have been contracted against the interests of the Nation, or against the interests of the People, or against ...
In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 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 ...
The members are the private banks that lend to Third World states and companies. During the 70s, deposit banks had become the main source of credit for countries in difficulty. By the end of the ...
With the G7+1 summit taking place in Okinawa it’s time to check on the status of promises concerning the cancellation of Third World debt. More than a year ago, in June 1999 in Cologne, the Jubilee ...
Activists are defending land, life and water from the global mining industry. Tatiana Garavito, Sebastian Ordoñez and Hannibal Rhoades investigate. Leaders from the frontlines of mining struggles in ...
Le CADTM publie une note sur la dette Dette Dette multilatérale : Dette qui est due à la Banque mondiale, au FMI, aux banques ...
Nous allons aborder le thème connu sous les expressions de dette odieuse Dette odieuse Selon la doctrine, pour qu’une dette soit odieuse, et donc nulle, elle doit remplir deux conditions : 1) Elle ...
Cuando A presta dinero a B, B reembolsa la suma prestada por A (el capital) más una suma complementaria llamada interés, a fin de que a A le interese efectuar esta operación financiera. La tasa de ...
La balanza de pagos corrientes de un país es el resultado de sus transacciones comerciales (es decir, de los bienes y servicios importados y exportados) y de sus intercambios de ingresos financieras ...
El Foro Social Mundial de Salvador de Bahía tuvo lugar del 13 al 17 de marzo de 2018. La consigna era «Resistir es crear, resistir es transformar». Este foro tenía tres dimensiones: un foro bahiano ...