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02 July 2009:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Bilateral debt
Haiti gets $1.2 billion debt cancellation after long wait

26 June 2009:  - Capital Flight
The UK supports Country by Country reporting standards and publishes study minimising transfer mispricing impacts on development

26 June 2009:  - Financial architecture - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Private debt - International Financial Institutions - Debt sustainability - Capital Flight - Aid effectiveness
Beyond the crisis: renewing finance, demanding economic justice

26 June 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
The UN conference on the financial crisis and development: outcomes and follow-up prospects

25 June 2009:  - Financial architecture
New phase of debt crisis for HIPC countries prompts calls for a fair and transparent debt work-out mechanism

25 June 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Financial crisis: European countries block reform at the UN

22 June 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Crucial week for UN discussions on the financial crisis and development

12 June 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Europeans not keen on far-reaching reforms at the UN conference

10 June 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
The meeting of the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies fails to deliver genuinely innovative and pro-development proposals

28 May 2009:  - Financial architecture
UN crisis conference postponed, outcome may lead to institutional reforms

19 May 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
European Council: disappointing conclusion on development finance

19 May 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness - Financial architecture
Eurodad gives insights at UNCTAD financial crisis symposium

14 May 2009:  - Governance
French and Swiss progress on stolen assets recovery

14 May 2009:  - Financial architecture
Gaping holes limit proposed “whole of the Union” ODA plus approach

11 May 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
IMF gold sales: how much for low-income countries?

11 May 2009:  - Financial architecture
UN Conference on financial crisis at risk of being dismissed

30 April 2009:  - Financial architecture
European Parliament resolution on G20 conclusions

30 April 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Debt sustainability - Capital Flight
World Bank U-turn on investment signals labour standards and tax breakthrough

27 April 2009:  - Conditionality - International Financial Institutions
Finance ministers in Washington fail to deliver on G20 promises

21 April 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
IMF emergency loans: Greater flexibility to overcome the crisis?

21 April 2009:  - Financial architecture
Not much on offer for poor countries to counter the crisis

16 April 2009:  - Financial architecture - Capital Flight
The empty OECD black list: Where did all tax havens go?

15 April 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Heads-up on the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings

15 April 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Crisis response funding for impoverished countries: Fresh and unconditional money required

10 April 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting - Capital Flight
Coping with the crisis: the EC's report on EU development finance

02 April 2009:  - Financial architecture - Aid accounting - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight
G20 communiqué: some progress on governance and finance, but a long way to go

01 April 2009:  - Aid accounting - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
Low-income countries likely to be short-changed by G20 London summit

30 March 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
New statistics show considerable increase in 2008 development assistance, but outlook is bleak

27 March 2009:  - Conditionality
Partial victory: the IMF abolishes one conditionality type

24 March 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
European NGOs meet the EU World Bank Executive Directors in Brussels

19 March 2009:  - Financial architecture
Secrecy jurisdictions under pre-G20 summit pressure

18 March 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
From opportunity to vulnerability; liberalisation reassessed, but with what result?

18 March 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
Press Release: EU risks turning a blind eye to the world’s poor

13 March 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debt - Debt sustainability - Financial architecture - Private debt - Conditionality
EU crisis response plan for development revealed ahead of key summits

12 March 2009:  - Financial architecture
Jersey meeting and protest expose ‘offshore’ finance problems

09 March 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
European NGOs launched a position paper on the financial crisis and capital flight, debt and IFIs

05 March 2009:  - Capital Flight
Momentum building fast for reform of tax havens, offshore banks

04 March 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
Europe to the rescue for development? Expectations revised downwards

19 February 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Parliamentarians get to grip with financial crisis response

19 February 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
European meeting on financial and climate crises and international financial institutions advocacy

19 February 2009:  - Aid accounting - Bilateral debt
Forum Syd and others urge Swedish government to take responsibility for Liberia’s debt

17 February 2009:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Capital Flight
Former dictator’s funds to be returned to the people of Haiti

05 February 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture - Capital Flight
World Social Forum participants call for a new financial system that puts people first

05 February 2009:  - Bilateral debt
Less and worse aid? Financial crisis shows first impacts on European aid budgets

05 February 2009:  - Aid accounting - Capital Flight - Multilateral debt
Development ministers discuss possible EU support plan for developing countries

04 February 2009:  - Capital Flight - Financial architecture
European Union considers initiatives in response to financial crisis

03 February 2009:  - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
Harvard conference considers odious debt proposals

22 January 2009:  - Capital Flight - Financial architecture
The UN discusses implications of the financial crisis for development and the international financial system

22 January 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
Report back from the European cross network meeting on the financial crisis

22 January 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
G20 asks too much of the IMF

22 January 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
Jakarta Commitment: Indonesia and development partners sign agreement to increase aid effectiveness

22 January 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategies
More questions than answers emerge from global climate talks

21 January 2009:  - Bilateral debt - Multilateral debt
Institutional arrangements to deal with sovereign debt: did the Doha FFD Review make any progress?

09 January 2009:  - Capital Flight - Financial architecture
European civil society organises in response to the global financial crisis

08 January 2009:  - Aid effectiveness
Aid reform advocates urge new U.S. administration to act

11 December 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - International Financial Institutions
Doha disappointment: governments fail to deliver a good outcome on development finance

11 December 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting
Eurodad analysis of the Doha UN Financing for Development Outcome Document

11 December 2008:  - Governance - International Financial Institutions
International climate negotiations in Poznan: World Bank role challenged

02 December 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - Debt sustainability
­­Leaders in Doha fail to agree significant development finance reforms

01 December 2008:  - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Aid effectiveness
Doha- UN development finance conference update

28 November 2008:  - Financial architecture - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions
Press Release: Development campaigners express alarm about UN development finance summit

27 November 2008:  - Bilateral debt - Multilateral debt
Politicians gather in Doha for UN development finance conference

27 November 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
Food speculation discussed in financial crisis context

26 November 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial Institutions
Parliamentarians debate financial crisis response, aid effectiveness

24 November 2008:  - Bilateral debt - Multilateral debt
Ecuador postpones debt repayment, launches critical audit report

13 November 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategies
EU agrees joint position for Doha, but leaders’ eyes are on Washington

13 November 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
Bretton Woods II conference: limited expectations

13 November 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategies
IMF and World Bank put best feet forward ahead of Bretton Woods II summit

12 November 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - Aid effectiveness
European Parliament hears arguments on budget support scrutiny

10 November 2008:  - Bilateral debt - Illegitimate debt
Norwegian Church Aid Symposium Statement

07 November 2008:  - Financial architecture - Capital Flight
EU indicates platform for global finance summit

30 October 2008:  - Capital Flight
OECD countries gather in the fight against international tax evasion and avoidance in Paris

24 October 2008:  - Capital Flight
Speculation undermines the right to food

24 October 2008:  - Capital Flight
A European agenda to fight capital flight

24 October 2008:  - Capital Flight
Dangerous derivatives at the heart of the financial crisis

24 October 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Economic Commission for Africa and OECD discuss “mutual review” of effectiveness

24 October 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies
Taxation and Financing for Development

23 October 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Norway calls for the need to address illegitimate debts and co-responsibility between creditors and borrowers

23 October 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2008: which direction for the IFIs?

23 October 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
IMF back in business as Bretton Woods II conference announced

23 October 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
Bretton Woods II conference FAQs

17 October 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - Capital Flight
Reinforcing the UN tax committee

09 October 2008:  - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Debt sustainability
The World Bank should take urgent measures on Liberia’s debt

09 October 2008:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight
Senior figures call for new Bretton Woods ahead of Bank/Fund meetings

09 October 2008:  - Financial architecture - Capital Flight - Debt sustainability - Aid accounting
Eurodad encourages strong EU action for Doha development finance summit

08 October 2008:  - Debt sustainability - Financial architecture
New Ecuador constitution includes debt safeguards after audit reveals damages

03 October 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture
Heads-up on the WB and IMF Annual Meetings

26 September 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Conditionality
The World Bank and water privatisation: public money down the drain

26 September 2008:  - Illegitimate debt - International Financial Institutions
World Bank, NGOs clash at roundtable on odious debt

26 September 2008:  - Illegitimate debt - Aid accounting - Capital Flight
The European Parliament urges the EU to address odious debts and capital flight in Doha

25 September 2008:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight
Financial crisis: The time has come for Europe to lead on regulation

25 September 2008:  - Private debt - Financial architecture - Capital Flight
Citizens mobilization needed to prevent worse financial crisis impacts and change financial model

24 September 2008:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial Institutions
World Bank new poverty estimates: more confusing than ever

24 September 2008:  - Conditionality
The World Bank response to the food crisis: loosening the conditionality grip?

24 September 2008:  - Conditionality
IMF loans for food crisis still too burdensome and too expensive

24 September 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
The World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds: still fueling global warming

24 September 2008:  - Conditionality
International People's Tribunal charges the World bank of Human Rights abuse and environmental damage in India

23 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions
Bank plays blocking game in Accra aid negotiations

19 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Financial architecture - Conditionality
Avoiding a knowledge monopoly: what can the EU bring to the MDG debate?

18 September 2008:  - Financial architecture - Illegitimate debt - International Financial Institutions
European Union’s position the Monterrey review process

18 September 2008:  - Governance
World Bank voice and representation: time for change

17 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
The way forward after Accra: Eurodad-GMF roundtable debate

17 September 2008:  - Financial architecture
Governments start negotiations on the Doha Outcome Document

10 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
BetterAid's human pyramid is a civil society expression shown through photography

09 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Eurodad analysis of the outcome of Accra

08 September 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Bilateral debt
The United Nations' newly published volume, “National Development Strategies – Policy Notes”

05 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting
World aid summit makes marginal progress to reform ineffective aid

03 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions
Eurodad´s 2008 Paris Survey Analysis

01 September 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
CSOs call for urgent measures on aid effectiveness in Accra

25 August 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Civil society prepares for busy programme in Accra

25 August 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
EU with important role to play in Accra negotiations

25 August 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Keeping up with the news from Accra

05 August 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Civil society response to new Accra agenda for action

01 August 2008:  - Conditionality
The World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes rules in favour of Tanzanian people

01 August 2008:  - Financial architecture
First draft Financing for Development outcome document breaks some new ground but misses key development finance issues

01 August 2008:  - Governance
African solutions to African problems

01 August 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Conditionality
Signs Accra could result in Agenda for Inaction

24 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Spanish seminars on democratic ownership and mutual accountability

17 July 2008:  - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting
Can the UN Development Cooperation Forum replace the OECD DAC as the place for global aid negotiations?

17 July 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt
New UN independent expert on effects of foreign debt and IFIs

16 July 2008:  - Bilateral debt
39 CSOs sign up urging EU to cancel Haiti’s debt

16 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
New report condemns donor proliferation in climate change sector

16 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Mutli-stakeholder consultation urges effective use of foreign aid in reducing poverty

11 July 2008:  - Financial architecture
Latest news on the FfD process

10 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Civil Society responds to new Accra Agenda for Action

10 July 2008:  - Illegitimate debt - Governance - Debt sustainability
200 signatories demand that G8 tackle debt, food and climate crises

10 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Governance - Aid accounting
New FRIDE report explores political implications of aid effectiveness

08 July 2008:  - Conditionality
Bruegel and EURODAD organise roundtable on IMF Structural Conditionality

03 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Report: Experts meeting on vertical funds

03 July 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
European Investment Bank’s unhappy birthday celebrations

02 July 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Chinese “development” activities in Africa subject of CTA briefing

02 July 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Latin Americans agree further details for Bank of the South

02 July 2008:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate debt bulletin: Issue 7

27 June 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Eurodad Hosts Experts Meeting on Vertical Programs

24 June 2008:  - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions
Jubilee Act Passes the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

19 June 2008:  - Conditionality
Eurodad testifies at US House Hearing on World Bank conditionality

19 June 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Action for Global Health report calls for enhanced health aid

18 June 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting
OECD Survey reveals discrepancies in quality and predictability of aid

10 June 2008:  - Debt sustainability - Illegitimate debt - Financial architecture
Are lenders serious about the 2015 debt crisis?

05 June 2008:  - Conditionality
World Bank and IMF emergency loans: a cure or a curse for the food crisis?

05 June 2008:  - Debt sustainability
UN consultation emphasises unfinished debt agenda

04 June 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
African Parliamentarians take a proactive stance on aid effectiveness

04 June 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Eurodad update and action alert on aid

28 May 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Poverty analysis and strategies
Eurodad responds to EU Council conclusions on aid, FfD and food prices

22 May 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Donors take step forwards to untie aid

22 May 2008:  - Aid accounting - Aid effectiveness
“Missing: 75 billion for the world’s poor” say campaigners

16 May 2008:  - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Poverty analysis and strategies
Workshop advocates transparent arbitration in debt disputes

14 May 2008:  - Debt sustainability - Financial architecture
Latin Americans issue statement for heads of state summit

08 May 2008:  - Conditionality
The Asian Development Bank’s strategy: to have one’s cake and eat it

08 May 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Sachs appeals for new agriculture aid fund

07 May 2008:  - Capital Flight - Financial architecture
Towards a stable and development friendly financial system

23 April 2008:  - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debt
Eurodad Report Back: Bank/Fund and UN FfD meetings, Spring 2008

21 April 2008:  - Debt sustainability
Jubilee Act Passed by U.S. House

18 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Aid and review of the Monterrey Consensus

18 April 2008:  - Financial architecture
Currency transaction taxes and responsible financing at the UN

18 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
US launch of Eurodad aid effectiveness report

18 April 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Seminar on structural conditionality at the IMF

10 April 2008:  - Debt sustainability
Finance ministers debate Eurodad charter

10 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Bilateral debt
Aid effectiveness and Financing for Development: EC pledges

08 April 2008:  - Financial architecture
A taxing agenda for the IMF

08 April 2008:  - Conditionality
Europe questions IFIs on conditionality: whose outcome?

03 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Donors putting brakes on aid effectiveness?

03 April 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness
Bank both player and referee in road to Accra

01 April 2008:  - Debt sustainability - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt
Tajikistan: on the brink of economic collapse

28 March 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Press release: Patchy progress by world's donors in reforming aid, warns new report

27 March 2008:  - Financial architecture - Debt sustainability
Joint NGO Letter to G20 on Responsible Lending

27 March 2008:  - Multilateral debt
Liberia reaches Decision Point under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative

14 March 2008:  - Multilateral debt
14 NGOs Write to UN Secretary General on Debt

10 March 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Breaking the IMF’s grip on financial and monetary policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

10 March 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Europeans in Washington – waiting for U.S. proposals?

07 March 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
UK parliamentarians reproach DFID decision-making on World Bank funding increase

28 February 2008:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate Debt Campaign Bulletin: Issue 5

20 February 2008:  - Conditionality
The World Bank and IMF’s long shadow over Zambia’s copper mines

19 February 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Aid effectiveness and Accra: latest update

15 February 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
European NGOs call on EU to deliver better aid

08 February 2008:  - Conditionality
Roundtable in Brussels to discuss outcome-based conditionality

08 February 2008:  - Conditionality
Donors and recipients meet in Cairo to talk about the future of conditionality

11 January 2008:  - Conditionality
Outcome-based conditionality: breaking the conditionality grip?

11 January 2008:  - Financial architecture
Financing for Development: a step closer to Doha

09 January 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
The IMF neglects its own conditionality policies

21 December 2007: 
Launch of China and Africa report in Brussels

19 December 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
What the World Bank lost in Berlin

18 December 2007:  - Financial architecture
Movements and social organisations from Latin America and the World have released an open letter to the creation of the Bank of the South

18 December 2007:  - Financial architecture
The Bank of the South is launched in Argentina

18 December 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Commentary on the draft World Bank paper: The concept of odious debts: some considerations

11 December 2007:  - Conditionality
Norwegian study examines Eurodad and World Bank conditionality analysis

30 November 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Will the World Bank's new IDA money make a difference?

29 November 2007:  - Conditionality
The World Bank’s quiet push for privatisation in Afghanistan

16 November 2007:  - Financial architecture
Financing for Development: from Monterrey to Doha

13 November 2007:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Debt sustainability
Debt Relief for Liberia Finally in Sight

13 November 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate debt bulletin: Issue 4

09 November 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Call to Norwegian and Ecuadorian governments for a task force on illegitimate debt

25 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
A Public Hearing on the World Bank was convened on 15 October in The Hague

23 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture - Conditionality - Governance - Debt sustainability - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
Lowdown on World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2007

23 October 2007:  - Bilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Aid effectiveness
Ecuador: update on debt audit commission

22 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
IMF failing Liberia

16 October 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - International Financial Institutions
World Bank draft discussion paper on odious debt: a call for a full, independent peer review

12 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
World vs Bank: public hearing on the World Bank in The Hague

11 October 2007:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions
One step closer to the Bank of the South

11 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Governance
Proposal for reform of World Bank governance


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