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While the IMF loosens up, Europe adopts the Fund’s old dogmas

Nuria Molina 2010 02 25 Last Friday, the IMF  announced for the second time in a week that they were letting go of some of their long held beliefs. The staff position paper “Capital inflows the role of controls”

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British Government supports an anti-vulture law

Nick Dearden Jubilee Debt Campaign 2010 02 25   After a year of campaigning against vulture funds – investment companies that buy up defaulted developing country debts for bargain prices and then sue the country in question for full

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There’s a new EU tax type in town

Algirdas Semeta may not be a household name to many people in the EU. Nor might his title of ‘Commissioner Designate for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud’ ring a bell. You might even struggle to place him when I tell you that he used to be Director General of the Department of Statistics of the Government of Lithuania.

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European governments want more stick and less carrot on IMF conditionality

Nuria Molina 2009 11 26 The crisis seems to be reversing a lot of the hard won achievements in the area of conditionality. I’m not normally a pessimist by nature, but I’m turning into one after two vicious blows

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Quo vadis, Germany? Development cooperation under the new government.

Bodo Ellmers 2009 11 04 The German development community has been through uncertain times since the federal elections took place in late September. The Social Democrats (SPD) lost, and the SPD development minister Heidemarie Wiczorek Zeul had to step

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