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Africa – on the creditorsâ hook
Is Africa once again on the hook of rich creditors and does it steer into a next Âcontinent-wide debt crisis? The conference on 6 December 2018 centers around dramatically increasing debt indicators in lots of African countries. There will be simultaneous German/English translation. Participation is free, registration is requested.
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Global Sovereign Debt Monitor 2018
119 countries in the Global South are critically in debt. The debt trend continues: in 87 of these countries, the situation has worsened in the last four years. 13 countries have ceased payments to creditors. These are the results of the Global Sovereign Debt Monitor 2018.
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Jubilee Caribbean demanding debt cancellation in case of natural catastrophes
Every eleven years, the small island states in the eastern Caribbean are hit by category 5 hurricanes following the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Last year, the hurricanes âIrmaâ and âMariaâ, measured with a wind velocity up to 300 kilometres per hour, caused destruction of more than double the annual economic…
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FTAP-Update: June 2017
 1. Outcome of the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting erlassjahr.de and international colleagues staged action outside the Baden Baden casino in March, in order to demonstrate how rising debt levels suffocate poor countries' economies. Still, the ministers' communiquĂ© makes only scant reference to global debt problems; one of these references, however,…
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Debt Relief in Baden-Baden
20 people dressed in the flags of the Debt20-countries, about 150 activists, many journalists and camera teams and â as expected â not one finance minster to perform a symbolical debt relief. JĂŒrgen Kaiser, who is the policy coordinator of Jubilee Germany, held a speech directly opposite the Baden-Baden âKurhausâ…
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Global Sovereign Indebtedness Monitor 2017
The article lists debt indicators for all those countries that show debt indicators above critical thresholds for end-2015.  It shows that 116 countries in the Global South are critically indebted, which is 33 more than only two years ago. The highest average debt indicators are shown by affected countries in the CIS /…
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Debt20 campaign hands over supporter logos to the upcoming German G20 presidency
During a short ceremony in the German development ministry state secretary Thomas Silberhorn in representation of the German government received 185 institutional logos of organisations, which support the G20 call for a fair and efficient debt workout mechanism on November 9th 2016. Geoffrey Chongo of the Jesuit Centre for Theological…
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Eurodad discussion paper: The Evolving Nature of Developing Country Debt and Solutions for Change
The new discussion paper published by Eurodad is analysing the evolving nature of debt and the regime-building processes at the international level to prevent and resolve debt crises that are becoming more complicated. The debt burden in developing countries has been on the rise, since 2011 also in relative terms. The…
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Global Sovereign Indebtedness Monitor
There has not been a single year in recent economic history, without the existence of debt distress somewhere in the world, either in an individual state or in a whole national economy. Therefore, sovereign debt crises are nothing extraordinary. However, in order to develop an appropriate strategy for overcoming the…
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FTAP-Update: July 2015
Greece // The UN process towards a sovereign debt workout // Ever more countires in crisis
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