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April 29, 2019

IMF loan to Mozambique following Cyclone Idai 'shocking indictment' of international community

Emergency grants should be available to impoverished countries in response to disasters like Idai, especially those linked to the climate breakdown primarily caused by richer countries in the global North, says Jubilee Debt Campaign.
January 27, 2019

Christian Aid warns of 'dangerous' over-reliance on private sector finance for development

Christian Aid says solutions favoured by the super-rich always seem to involve further opportunities for their own enrichment.
April 11, 2016

$61 billion funding gap for impoverished countries

Impoverished country governments could be up to $61 billion worse off in 2016 as a result of the crash in global commodity prices and strengthening of the US dollar. This is reducing government revenue and increasing the relative size of debt payments in foreign currencies.
July 14, 2015

Response to financial crash 'sowing seeds of next global crisis' says report

A new report by the Jubilee Debt Campaign Debt shows burdens in the most impoverished countries are increasing, 10 years after the G8 summit committed to cancel debt cdeveloping country debts.
April 1, 2015

Lending boom to impoverished countries threatens ‘Greece style’ debt crisis

Figures calculated by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, based on recent data from the World Bank show that loans to impoverished countries have almost tripled since 2008.
June 28, 2014

Risk of new Argentinian debt default after vulture fund verdict

The United States Supreme Court has decided not to hear Argentina’s appeal against a $1.3 billion award to two US-based vulture funds.
September 26, 2013

Jubilee Debt Campaign calls for a 'Jubilee for Justice'

Over 10,000 people have signed a ‘Jubilee for Justice’ petition calling for cancellation of unjust debt, just and progressive taxation and an end to lending which forces countries into debt.