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Forum mondial de la pauvreté [CADTM]

Seminaire du CADTM Afrique [CADTM]

Université populaire de RAID/ATTAC/CADTM Tunisie [CADTM]

Rio+20 [CADTM]

Nalco Holding Company

Pensioners balk at World Bank's 'adequate' pension level

Independent, 16 August

Pakistan needs debt cancellation, not new IMF loans

Unprecedented flooding this month is pushing Pakistan to the brink of collapse. Widespread devastation will require massive external financing to meet the basic needs of six million homeless and 20 million affected overall.

Taxing pirate banking could help eradicate world poverty

At its annual conference last week, the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development identified concrete measures that could help developing countries to mobilise the resources needed to achieve the Millennium Developing Goals (MDGs) and go even further to help eradicate world poverty and lay the ground for a fairer global financial system.

Standing in the way of development?

May 18, 2010

A people's perspective on financial sector lending

Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, public scrutiny over the use of public money in financial sector operations has increased. Some of the questions being asked are: What exactly is the money being used for? Who is benefiting?

"D’un retournement l’autre : Comédie sérieuse sur la crise financière en trois actes et en alexandrins" [CADTM]

Séance de formation, d’expérimentation et d’appropriation des outils et supports pédagogiques du CADTM [CADTM]

BetterAid debates at the UN Development Cooperation Forum

The bi-annual meeting of the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) started yesterday in New York. In addition to discussions on aid effectiveness, the meeting will also focus on wider debates  of policy coherence for development. Civil society organisations including Eurodad have been actively involved in the two preparatory symposioums in Vienna and Helsinki.The Better Aid open pla

FY 2011 Appropriations Bill includes language on World Bank Energy Strategy

Bill ties the World Bank’s General Capital Increase request to a rapid phase out of Bank support for fossil fuel projects.

Is Africa still being looted? World Bank dodges its own research

Links, 15 August

Two-thirds of Muscovites oppose destruction of Khimki Forest for motorway, says new poll

A recent public opinion poll on the controversial 1.5 billion euros Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway project finds that 67 percent of Muscovites oppose sacrificing the Khimki Forest near Moscow for the construction of the new road and reveals only 19 perc

Country by country reporting hailed by World Bank, but can it practice what it preaches?

On the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB’s) website, many CSOs including Eurodad have contributed to the IASB Discussion Paper on extractive activities, arguing in favor of a comprehensive country by country reporting standard for the extractive industries, a standard currently being reviewed.

Reaching the millennium goals: The European Parliament calls on EU member states to make progress on aid and capital flight

On 15th June the European Parliament passed a resolution on progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): mid-term review in preparation for the UN high-level meeting in September 2010. This resolution sets out a number of recommendations for EU Member States ahead of the summit.

Petite philosophie de la dette et de la finance [CADTM]

Citoyens résistants d’hier et d’aujourd’hui [CADTM]

World Bank crisis-lending contravenes Eurodad responsible lending principles

Despite commitments by the World Bank to significantly reduce conditions attached to its loans, research from Eurodad reveals that a massive 57 conditions were attached to three loans given to Ghana in 2009.

Preliminary report on impacts on the Rojkovske Raselinisko Mire by the proposed motorway D1 Turany-Hubova, Slovakia

Illustrated report on the most significant impacts of the D1 motorway in Slovakia, prepared by Jan Topercer, commissioned by Friends of the Earth-CEPA and CEE Bankwatch Network.

La dette au Sud et au Nord [CADTM]

"Le salaire de la dette" [CADTM]

Debt distress in Low Income Countries calls for policy changes

According to the IMF, six countries that have benefitted from debt relief through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) are now at high risk of entering into new debt distress.