Selected Articles

Cut borrowing costs for poorer countries to free up $900bn for development – report - Guardian 06.05.26 515308
To phase out fossil fuels, developing countries need exit route from “debt trap” - Climate Change 22.04.26 515410
Debt relief in Somalia: Billions for growth and development - Borgen Project 18.12.25 503381
US cancels $1.1bn of Somalia’s debt in ‘historic’ financial agreement - Guardian 06.11.24 439086
Global Debt Sacrifices the World’s Poor on the Altar of Profit - Jacobin 21.06.24 420457
Record high for debt repayments by low-income nations - WSWS 18.12.23 390308
Developing nations spent record $443.5 billion on public debt in 2022, World Bank says - CNBC 13.12.23 389121
Nations where 3.3bn live spend more on debt than health, schools - Al Jazeera 13.07.23 358876
‘Crushing’ debt crisis spells development disaster for billions: UN chief - UN News 12.07.23 358901
G7 Has Failed the Global South in Hiroshima - Global Issues 22.05.23 347146
Lost decade looms for debt-ridden developing countries - UN News 12.04.23 340476
World’s poorest nations spend 16% of revenue on debt, the highest in 25 years - Guardian 11.04.23 340351
Germany Had Its Debts Written Off. Today, We Should Do the Same for the Global South - Jacobin 27.02.23 332135
Sharp, Long-lasting Slowdown to Hit Developing Countries Hard - WorldBank 10.01.23 389120
UN Development Programme calls for debt relief now for 54 countries - Global Issues 11.10.22 310785
The Third-World Debt Crisis Reveals the Rot at the Heart of the Global Economy - Jacobin 06.06.22 289802
The Global Inequality Boomerang - CGDEV 06.05.22 163187
IMF, World Bank warn of ‘huge buildup of debt’ in poorest nations - Al Jazeera 20.04.22 283483
Poorer countries spend five times more on debt than climate crisis – report - Guardian 27.10.21 259294
Video: How creditors are cashing in on a G20 debt deal for poor nations - Al Jazeera 23.10.21 260370
The next global economic emergency? Deepening debt in the developing world - Guardian 17.10.21 258170
Debt cancellation and reparations - Ecologist 14.10.21 293196
The way out of Argentina's debt crisis - New Internationalist 29.05.20 209148
As coronavirus spreads, IMF cancels 6 months of debt for poorest countries - CD 13.04.20 204769
Debt relief allows Somalia to rejoin global economy after 30-year exile - Guardian 26.03.20 202700
Are we heading for another developing world debt crisis? - Guardian 14.01.18 163151
A developing world of debt - Guardian 05/12 163152
A Debt Based Monetary System, Export Warfare & Third World Debt - Positive Money 12/11 163156
The People of Europe should audit their creditors - CADTM 1/11 163157
We won’t pay for the crisis. The rich have to pay for it - CADTM 2/09 163161
From Debt to Development - OID-IDO 11/05 163162
Odious Debt: When Dictators Borrow, Who Repays the Loan? - Brookings 04/03 163166
Solving insolvency - New Internationalist 01/00 163167
Campaigners hail UK debt deal - BBC 12/99 163171
The burden of debt - BBC 12/99 163172
Why debt relief will not benefit poor - BBC 06/99 163176
Debt relief: A yawning gap between rhetoric and reality - WSWS 06/99 163177
Clinton pledges to cancel debt - BBC 9/99 163181
Debt 'killing children' - BBC 07/99 163182
The Dictatorship of Debt - New Internationalist 05/99 163186
The Debt Boomerang - New Internationalist 05/93 163191