European Network on Debt and Development

…This week’s European Union (EU) meeting of finance ministers in Brussels for the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) produced strong rhetoric about the importance of tackling tax evasion and tax fraud, but offered little in the way of concrete … →

…By Stéphanie Colin and María José Romero Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are high on the development agenda and they are increasingly being promoted as a way of closing the infrastructure financing gap in developed and developing countries alike. Given the complexity … →

…Hardly a day passes by without EU leaders issuing new promises that they will clamp down on tax crimes and tax havens. Eurodad has written three short notes on why and how EU politicians can live up to their promises … →

…By María José Romero, Eurodad and Gustavo Hernández, Alop An April seminar on the “Evaluation of the European Union’s support to private sector development in third countries” showed that much more needs to be done to maximise the impact of … →

…By Bodo Ellmers and Jeroen Kwakkenbos The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank just ended in Washington DC and brought little promise of sunny days ahead for development. The different Communiqués released during the … →

…Don’t miss the major opportunity for information sharing, analysis and strategy session of the year: the Eurodad biennial conference, which takes place in Prague from 3-5 June! The deadline for registration is Tuesday, 30 April. Co-organised by Eurodad Czech member … →

…By Jeroen Kwakkenbos The latest figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on donor official development assistance (ODA) have been released. For the most part, the Development Assistance Committee figures do not make for very positive reading. … →

…It is always good to draw lessons that allow us to improve current and future strategies by evaluating past actions. In this regard, the report ‘Evaluation of the European Union’s support to private sector development in third countries’ is important … →

…BRUSSELS, 9 April. Today the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU agreed a compromise text on transparency of extractive industries. The text will be adopted by the Parliament and the Council in the coming months.  If … →

…In a response to the OECD’s February report Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, 58 campaigning organisations say it’s time to make multinationals pay their fair share of tax. Eurodad, Christian Aid and others call on the OECD and G20 … →