European Network on Debt and Development

…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 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 … →

…As the UN’s high-level panel on the post 2015 development agenda prepares to meet in Bali, it is clear that no worthwhile development goals can be met without fundamental changes in the international financial and economic system. This includes exposing … →

…The International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the World Bank’s private sector lending arm – now accounts for more than one third of the World Bank’s work. It has investments of almost $20 billion a year – and about half of … →

…Eurodad member SLUG has launched a new report “Ethical Deficit” on the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund’s investments in government bonds. This summer the Norwegian Minister of International Development announced that the Norwegian Government would carry out the first ever creditor … →

…A first reading of the press statements and overview paper from the IMF’s review of conditionality, completed in September 2012 might give the impression that the IMF has made a 180 degree turn in its conditionality policy, one of the … →

…Brussels, 15 August 2012 Today the Norwegian Minister of Development Heikki Holmås announced that Norway will make an assessment of the legitimacy of developing countries’ debt to Norway. This means that the Norwegian government will be the first to ever … →

…By Carlos Villota, The XIII United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) took place in Doha, Qatar between 21-26 April. The Final Declaration – approved by the developing and developed countries alike – acknowledges the impact of the financial … →

…By Francesca Giubilo, 27-04-2012 At last week’s World Bank and IMF spring meetings, the G24, the group of developing countries governments made a bold bid to get debt work-out mechanisms back on the agenda. They called for a study on … →

…BRUSSELS, 19 April, 2012: A new Eurodad report reveals how rich nations are using a complex web of private funds and financial intermediaries to wiggle out of pledges to provide $100 billion a year to help developing countries cope with … →