Panel

Decades after the formal end of colonialism in most countries, massive transfers of wealth from the global South to the global North are still taking place in the global economy. This panel will focus on the most prominent types of these transfers: debt service, profit repatriation and unequal exchange. Three eminent experts on the topic will present the extent of these transfers, their underlying mechanisms, and political strategies of how to overcome them.

Invited speakers:

– Mariana Morena Hanbury Lemos, economist and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

– Malina Stutz, economist, consultant and researcher at the Jubilee/Erlassjahr campaign

– Christof Parnreiter,  Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Hamburg and head of a research project on the repatriation of profits“

The speakers will each deliver a keynote of 30 min. After that, we open the discussion.

BuKO40

The Bundeskoordination Internationalismus (BUKO) is the organizer of the congress and stands for emancipatory politics, radical criticism of social conditions, and an internationalist movement. It is an independent umbrella organization that currently comprises 104 One World groups, development policy organizations, inter- and transnationalist initiatives, solidarity groups, shops, campaigns, and magazine projects, as well as almost 100 individuals. BUKO was founded in 1977, making it one of the oldest grassroots networks in Germany. BUKO originated in the solidarity movements with the liberation struggles in the South.

BUKO sees itself as a forum for left-wing, anti-authoritarian debate, linking BUKO campaigns and working groups that have emerged from development policy mobilization and political work. BUKO seeks open dialogue with other emancipatory movements and non-governmental organizations

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