European Network on Debt and Development

…A recent study co-sponsored by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) highlights several policy decisions that governments can make in terms of public purchasing to foster … →

…Since CONCORD published the Eurodad-authored report on Global financial flows, aid and development earlier this year, there’s been a slew of other interesting papers taking a ‘big picture’ look at the landscape of finance flows to and from developing countries. … →

…This article was also published on the Vice Versa Magazine. A debate on the role of business in development cooperation last Thursday, 11 April in Amsterdam, raised one particularly revealing question for me: is it possible to reconcile two unrelated … →

…By Bodo Ellmers While most of the world’s population was reeling from one of the globe’s multiple crises, social movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) gathered at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunisia last month in search of alternatives. The … →

…By Tove Maria Ryding While our ministers have been delivering speeches about the importance of a healthy financial system, transparency and global tax justice, it seems an international group of financial experts, bankers, lawyers and middlemen have been busy racking … →

…By Berber Verpoest, Counter Balance and María José Romero, Eurodad Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets are under pressure – but never fear, the private sector is here to fill the gap. In short, that’s the EU’s answer to declining ODA … →

…By Costas Todoulos and Bodo Ellmers  After more than a week of messy negotiations, the Troika (made up of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank) and the government of Cyprus agreed on a bailout … →

…At the time of the earthquake in Haiti I was working as an advocate at the UN headquarters in New York and I recall a sense of purpose and solidarity permeating throughout the building.There was no doubt in anybody’s mind … →

…by Diana Hulova, As the debt crisis in Europe and the Global South moves into a new year, Eurodad and German member organisation Erlassjahr organised a seminar on global debt management in Berlin. I attended the seminar which brought together … →

…Our review of all different sources of development finance is nearly complete – look out for that in the new year – but I thought I’d whet your appetite with a summary table.  Using the most reliable sources we can … →