By Mubarak Zeb Khan (2 JUNE 2023): Consumer inflation raced to 38 per cent in May, the highest annual rise in prices on record, driven mainly by skyrocketing costs of food, house rents, electricity and gas bills, and transport, says …
Read More »CADTM denounces the G20
At the time of the WB-IMF annual assemblies held from 12 to 18 October 2020, the G20 Finance Ministers met on Wednesday 14 October to decide on new debt relief measures for the countries of the South. The G20 proved …
Read More »How micro-finance impinge on human rights
By Philip Mader (13 November) This blog post is based on a talk given at the ETOC Conference on “Financialisation, Eco-Destruction, and Human Rights beyond Borders” in Brussels, September 28-29, 2017, and should not be regarded as an exhaustive academic …
Read More »Inequality Didn’t Just Happen. It Was Created
(By Joseph E. Stiglitz) American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created. Market forces played a role, but it was not market forces alone. In a sense, that should be obvious: economic laws are universal, but our growing inequality— especially …
Read More »IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programs for Pakistan
By Junaid Malik (8 November 2014) The ideology of neoliberalism imposed on poor nations demanding them to lower the living standards of their people. Enforcing Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) to ensure debt repayment and economic restructuring. These are the general …
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