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11 March 2010:  - Financial architecture - Capital Flight
New Eurodad briefing: EU derivatives regulation: Too little too late?

11 March 2010:  - Financial architecture - Capital Flight - Aid accounting - International Financial Institutions
Big push in Europe for the Financial Transaction Tax

11 March 2010:  - Multilateral debt
New analysis on debt in Latin America

10 March 2010:  - Capital Flight
The European Parliament Condemns Tax Havens and Urges the European Union to Fight Capital Flight

09 March 2010:  - Aid effectiveness
The role of parliamentarians in the changing aid architecture - focus on South-South Cooperation

25 February 2010:  - Capital Flight
France publishes list of tax havens: France is missing the point, says CCFD-Terre Solidaire

25 February 2010:  - Poverty analysis and strategies
Children and economic growth

22 February 2010:  - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions
World Bank fails to assess the impacts of their advice on the poor

18 February 2010:  - Capital Flight
Research shows poor countries make huge losses due to tax evasion by multinational companies

18 February 2010:  - International Financial Institutions - Conditionality
When facts change, I change my mind. What will you do, IMF?

17 February 2010:  - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting
Missing the targets: EU aid falls short of promises

10 February 2010:  - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting - Governance
Untying aid: Formal progress but flows still sideline developing countries

04 February 2010:  - Multilateral debt
Haiti’s debt burden- the real story

01 February 2010:  - International Financial Institutions
Do we need another multilateral development bank controlled by Europe?

29 January 2010:  - Aid accounting
0.7%: The race for new aid legislation is on in the UK and elsewhere in Europe

28 January 2010:  - Capital Flight
New European Parliament resolution calls on the European Union to tackle capital flight and tax havens.

28 January 2010:  - Aid accounting
European aid in danger of missing 2010 targets

28 January 2010:  - Capital Flight
Austria and Luxembourg block progress on EU fight against tax evasion

28 January 2010:  - Capital Flight
UN tax committee suggests measures to curb capital flight from developing countries

22 January 2010:  - Capital Flight
Civil society urges the OECD to develop a political agenda on tax justice and development

21 January 2010:  - Illegitimate debt
Bolivian MPs recommend setting up an external debt audit commission

18 January 2010:  - Capital Flight
Eurodad signs New Haven declaration on human rights and financial integrity

18 January 2010:  - Capital Flight
Eurodad joins task force on financial integrity and economic development

18 January 2010:  - Multilateral debt
Haiti: Eurodad and Jubilee Debt Campaign call for large assistance grants and full debt cancellation

18 January 2010:  - Multilateral debt
Press release: Debt Movement calls for a total cancellation of Haiti's debt

14 January 2010:  - Illegitimate debt
The need for a fair international debt work-out mechanism grows stronger as vultures gather over Argentina

14 January 2010:  - International Financial Institutions
The climate summit fails to deliver for the world’s poor

08 January 2010:  - Governance
The Spanish EU presidency: Opportunities in development finance

06 January 2010:  - Illegitimate debt
Anti-poverty campaigners call for independent arbitration in Icesave dispute

17 December 2009:  - Debt sustainability
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Debt Distress vs. Debt “Sustainability”

17 December 2009:  - Capital Flight
The European Parliament and the European Commission put tax on the development agenda

16 December 2009: 
Eurodad participates at an UNCTAD meeting to discuss the 2010 report on Least Developed Countries

16 December 2009:  - Financial architecture
Eurodad's recommendations for the new European Parliament

14 December 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Don't bank on it! Challenging the World Bank's role in future climate finance

10 December 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Irish justice campaigners say: The IMF is naughty not nice!

08 December 2009:  - Capital Flight
Is the International Finance Corporation supporting tax-evading companies?

08 December 2009:  - Illegitimate debt
UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen: Eurodad’s members call for a fair deal on climate financing for developing countries

03 December 2009: 
Reform of the Spanish Export Credit Agency will create more Southern debt

03 December 2009: 
Accra Agenda for Action: OECD Working Party takes stock on implementation

03 December 2009: 
Intermón Oxfam calls on the Spanish EU presidency for concrete measures on tax justice

02 December 2009:  - Aid accounting
EU Development Council backtracks on development commitments

26 November 2009: 
Liberia sued by Vulture Funds in London

19 November 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
What IMF-advised “social welfare reforms” in Mongolia could mean for the country's poor

19 November 2009: 
Zimbabwe Europe Network (ZEN), ZIMCODD and EURODAD call for new approach to Zimbabwe’s debt

19 November 2009: 
Illegitimate debt and responsible financing on the UN agenda

19 November 2009: 
The UN Development Cooperation Forum debates mutual accountability

18 November 2009: 
European development Finance and the upcoming EU presidencies: What issues What opportunities

17 November 2009: 
Legal Case Studies on Illegitimate Debt: New Publication by Aktion Finanzplatz Schweiz

12 November 2009:  - Illegitimate debt
Developing nations unite around justice in Barcelona talks

04 November 2009:  - Illegitimate debt
New report by UN Special Rapporteur on debt issues

04 November 2009: 
New financial secrecy index turns OECD list upside down

04 November 2009:  - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting - Governance
The price of fragmentation – New European Commission report unveils the costs of aid ineffectiveness

04 November 2009: 
Time for a Global Fund for Health? The IMF will have to get out of the way first…

04 November 2009: 
What’s missing in the response to the global financial crisis? Rethinking the global financial system during a time of crisis

21 October 2009:  - Financial architecture - Aid accounting - Poverty analysis and strategies - Capital Flight
New reports assess EU policy coherence for development

19 October 2009:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions
South American countries sign Banco del Sur agreement

19 October 2009:  - Illegitimate debt
Wipe out illegitimate debt says new report

07 October 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
CSOs discuss climate finance in Bangkok

07 October 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Debt sustainability - Multilateral debt - Capital Flight - Financial architecture
Bank Fund Istanbul annual meetings discuss governance, conditionality, tax and debt

05 October 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Doing a Decent Job? New Report on the IMF shows a Leopard cannot change its spots

03 October 2009:  - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight - Financial architecture - Aid effectiveness
G20 remains vague on crisis social impact measures

29 September 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Heads up on the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings

29 September 2009:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions
G20 prioritised over G8: any change for Europe, developing countries?

23 September 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
G24 Policy Brief: IMF emergency loans for low-income countries

23 September 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
IMF advice paradox: increase social spending, but contain deficits

22 September 2009:  - Multilateral debt - Debt sustainability
Needed flexibility or seeds of new crisis?

22 September 2009:  - Debt sustainability - Multilateral debt
Review of the DSF: Bank & Fund Declare Countries can Borrow More

16 September 2009:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight
EU position for G20 summit reveals limited ambitions

16 September 2009:  - Financial architecture - Aid accounting - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight
From London to Pittsburgh: assessing G20 action for developing countries

14 September 2009:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Capital Flight
Eurodad and member resources on the financial crisis and development

10 September 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
European NGOs meet to prepare for the World Bank and IMF meetings in Istanbul

08 September 2009:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions
European Parliament discusses developing country crisis impacts and responses

27 August 2009:  - Capital Flight - International Financial Institutions
European Investment Bank updates tax evasion policies in response to NGO pressure

07 August 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
IMF financial package for low-income countries: Much ado about nothing?

28 July 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
World Bank voice and representation: the moment of truth?

23 July 2009:  - Capital Flight
New report calls on Norway to set up fight against tax havens

15 July 2009:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness
Development policy priorities for the Swedish EU Presidency

15 July 2009:  - Financial architecture
Norway’s Pension Fund: Is Norway a Responsible Lender? A new critical report by SLUG

13 July 2009:  - Capital Flight - Aid accounting - International Financial Institutions - Debt sustainability
The 2009 G8: what has been achieved on development and finance?

08 July 2009:  - Illegitimate debt - Debt sustainability
Fresh call for Zimbabwe’s debt cancellation

08 July 2009:  - International Financial Institutions
Implementing the G20 deal on IMF drawing rights and gold sales

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 - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Debt sustainability
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?


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