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02 July 2009: - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Bilateral debtHaiti gets $1.2 billion debt cancellation after long wait
26 June 2009: - Capital FlightThe 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 effectivenessBeyond the crisis: renewing finance, demanding economic justice
26 June 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsThe UN conference on the financial crisis and development: outcomes and follow-up prospects
25 June 2009: - Financial architectureNew phase of debt crisis for HIPC countries prompts calls for a fair and transparent debt work-out mechanism
25 June 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsFinancial crisis: European countries block reform at the UN
22 June 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsCrucial week for UN discussions on the financial crisis and development
12 June 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsEuropeans not keen on far-reaching reforms at the UN conference
10 June 2009: - Aid effectivenessThe meeting of the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies fails to deliver genuinely innovative and pro-development proposals
28 May 2009: - Financial architectureUN crisis conference postponed, outcome may lead to institutional reforms
19 May 2009: - Aid effectivenessEuropean Council: disappointing conclusion on development finance
19 May 2009: - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness - Financial architectureEurodad gives insights at UNCTAD financial crisis symposium
14 May 2009: - GovernanceFrench and Swiss progress on stolen assets recovery
14 May 2009: - Financial architectureGaping holes limit proposed “whole of the Union” ODA plus approach
11 May 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsIMF gold sales: how much for low-income countries?
11 May 2009: - Financial architectureUN Conference on financial crisis at risk of being dismissed
30 April 2009: - Financial architectureEuropean Parliament resolution on G20 conclusions
30 April 2009: - International Financial Institutions - Debt sustainability - Capital FlightWorld Bank U-turn on investment signals labour standards and tax breakthrough
27 April 2009: - Conditionality - International Financial InstitutionsFinance ministers in Washington fail to deliver on G20 promises
21 April 2009: - Aid effectivenessIMF emergency loans: Greater flexibility to overcome the crisis?
21 April 2009: - Financial architectureNot much on offer for poor countries to counter the crisis
16 April 2009: - Financial architecture - Capital FlightThe empty OECD black list: Where did all tax havens go?
15 April 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsHeads-up on the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings
15 April 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsCrisis response funding for impoverished countries: Fresh and unconditional money required
10 April 2009: - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness - Aid accounting - Capital FlightCoping with the crisis: the EC's report on EU development finance
02 April 2009: - Financial architecture - Aid accounting - International Financial Institutions - Capital FlightG20 communiqué: some progress on governance and finance, but a long way to go
01 April 2009: - Aid accounting - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureLow-income countries likely to be short-changed by G20 London summit
30 March 2009: - Aid effectivenessNew statistics show considerable increase in 2008 development assistance, but outlook is bleak
27 March 2009: - ConditionalityPartial victory: the IMF abolishes one conditionality type
24 March 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsEuropean NGOs meet the EU World Bank Executive Directors in Brussels
19 March 2009: - Financial architectureSecrecy jurisdictions under pre-G20 summit pressure
18 March 2009: - Aid effectivenessFrom opportunity to vulnerability; liberalisation reassessed, but with what result?
18 March 2009: - Aid effectivenessPress 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 - ConditionalityEU crisis response plan for development revealed ahead of key summits
12 March 2009: - Financial architectureJersey meeting and protest expose ‘offshore’ finance problems
09 March 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsEuropean NGOs launched a position paper on the financial crisis and capital flight, debt and IFIs
05 March 2009: - Capital FlightMomentum building fast for reform of tax havens, offshore banks
04 March 2009: - Aid effectivenessEurope to the rescue for development? Expectations revised downwards
19 February 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsParliamentarians get to grip with financial crisis response
19 February 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsEuropean meeting on financial and climate crises and international financial institutions advocacy
19 February 2009: - Aid accounting - Bilateral debtForum Syd and others urge Swedish government to take responsibility for Liberia’s debt
17 February 2009: - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Capital FlightFormer dictator’s funds to be returned to the people of Haiti
05 February 2009: - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture - Capital FlightWorld Social Forum participants call for a new financial system that puts people first
05 February 2009: - Bilateral debtLess and worse aid? Financial crisis shows first impacts on European aid budgets
05 February 2009: - Aid accounting - Capital Flight - Multilateral debtDevelopment ministers discuss possible EU support plan for developing countries
04 February 2009: - Capital Flight - Financial architectureEuropean Union considers initiatives in response to financial crisis
03 February 2009: - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debtHarvard conference considers odious debt proposals
22 January 2009: - Capital Flight - Financial architectureThe UN discusses implications of the financial crisis for development and the international financial system
22 January 2009: - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureReport back from the European cross network meeting on the financial crisis
22 January 2009: - International Financial InstitutionsG20 asks too much of the IMF
22 January 2009: - Aid effectivenessJakarta Commitment: Indonesia and development partners sign agreement to increase aid effectiveness
22 January 2009: - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategiesMore questions than answers emerge from global climate talks
21 January 2009: - Bilateral debt - Multilateral debtInstitutional arrangements to deal with sovereign debt: did the Doha FFD Review make any progress?
09 January 2009: - Capital Flight - Financial architectureEuropean civil society organises in response to the global financial crisis
08 January 2009: - Aid effectivenessAid reform advocates urge new U.S. administration to act
11 December 2008: - International Financial Institutions - International Financial InstitutionsDoha disappointment: governments fail to deliver a good outcome on development finance
11 December 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Aid accountingEurodad analysis of the Doha UN Financing for Development Outcome Document
11 December 2008: - Governance - International Financial InstitutionsInternational climate negotiations in Poznan: World Bank role challenged
02 December 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategies - Debt sustainabilityLeaders in Doha fail to agree significant development finance reforms
01 December 2008: - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Aid effectivenessDoha- UN development finance conference update
28 November 2008: - Financial architecture - Aid effectiveness - International Financial InstitutionsPress Release: Development campaigners express alarm about UN development finance summit
27 November 2008: - Bilateral debt - Multilateral debtPoliticians gather in Doha for UN development finance conference
27 November 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureFood speculation discussed in financial crisis context
26 November 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial InstitutionsParliamentarians debate financial crisis response, aid effectiveness
24 November 2008: - Bilateral debt - Multilateral debtEcuador postpones debt repayment, launches critical audit report
13 November 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategiesEU agrees joint position for Doha, but leaders’ eyes are on Washington
13 November 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureBretton Woods II conference: limited expectations
13 November 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategiesIMF and World Bank put best feet forward ahead of Bretton Woods II summit
12 November 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategies - Aid effectivenessEuropean Parliament hears arguments on budget support scrutiny
10 November 2008: - Bilateral debt - Illegitimate debtNorwegian Church Aid Symposium Statement
07 November 2008: - Financial architecture - Capital FlightEU indicates platform for global finance summit
30 October 2008: - Capital FlightOECD countries gather in the fight against international tax evasion and avoidance in Paris
24 October 2008: - Capital FlightSpeculation undermines the right to food
24 October 2008: - Capital FlightA European agenda to fight capital flight
24 October 2008: - Capital FlightDangerous derivatives at the heart of the financial crisis
24 October 2008: - Aid effectivenessEconomic Commission for Africa and OECD discuss “mutual review” of effectiveness
24 October 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategiesTaxation and Financing for Development
23 October 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsNorway calls for the need to address illegitimate debts and co-responsibility between creditors and borrowers
23 October 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsWorld Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2008: which direction for the IFIs?
23 October 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureIMF back in business as Bretton Woods II conference announced
23 October 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureBretton Woods II conference FAQs
17 October 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategies - Capital FlightReinforcing the UN tax committee
09 October 2008: - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Debt sustainabilityThe World Bank should take urgent measures on Liberia’s debt
09 October 2008: - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Capital FlightSenior figures call for new Bretton Woods ahead of Bank/Fund meetings
09 October 2008: - Financial architecture - Capital Flight - Debt sustainability - Aid accountingEurodad encourages strong EU action for Doha development finance summit
08 October 2008: - Debt sustainability - Financial architectureNew Ecuador constitution includes debt safeguards after audit reveals damages
03 October 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Financial architectureHeads-up on the WB and IMF Annual Meetings
26 September 2008: - International Financial Institutions - ConditionalityThe World Bank and water privatisation: public money down the drain
26 September 2008: - Illegitimate debt - International Financial InstitutionsWorld Bank, NGOs clash at roundtable on odious debt
26 September 2008: - Illegitimate debt - Aid accounting - Capital FlightThe European Parliament urges the EU to address odious debts and capital flight in Doha
25 September 2008: - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions - Capital FlightFinancial crisis: The time has come for Europe to lead on regulation
25 September 2008: - Private debt - Financial architecture - Capital FlightCitizens mobilization needed to prevent worse financial crisis impacts and change financial model
24 September 2008: - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial InstitutionsWorld Bank new poverty estimates: more confusing than ever
24 September 2008: - ConditionalityThe World Bank response to the food crisis: loosening the conditionality grip?
24 September 2008: - ConditionalityIMF loans for food crisis still too burdensome and too expensive
24 September 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsThe World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds: still fueling global warming
24 September 2008: - ConditionalityInternational People's Tribunal charges the World bank of Human Rights abuse and environmental damage in India
23 September 2008: - Aid effectiveness - International Financial InstitutionsBank plays blocking game in Accra aid negotiations
19 September 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Financial architecture - ConditionalityAvoiding a knowledge monopoly: what can the EU bring to the MDG debate?
18 September 2008: - Financial architecture - Illegitimate debt - International Financial InstitutionsEuropean Union’s position the Monterrey review process
18 September 2008: - GovernanceWorld Bank voice and representation: time for change
17 September 2008: - Aid effectivenessThe way forward after Accra: Eurodad-GMF roundtable debate
17 September 2008: - Financial architectureGovernments start negotiations on the Doha Outcome Document
10 September 2008: - Aid effectivenessBetterAid's human pyramid is a civil society expression shown through photography
09 September 2008: - Aid effectivenessEurodad analysis of the outcome of Accra
08 September 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Bilateral debtThe United Nations' newly published volume, “National Development Strategies – Policy Notes”
05 September 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Aid accountingWorld aid summit makes marginal progress to reform ineffective aid
03 September 2008: - Aid effectiveness - International Financial InstitutionsEurodad´s 2008 Paris Survey Analysis
01 September 2008: - Aid effectivenessCSOs call for urgent measures on aid effectiveness in Accra
25 August 2008: - Aid effectivenessCivil society prepares for busy programme in Accra
25 August 2008: - Aid effectivenessEU with important role to play in Accra negotiations
25 August 2008: - Aid effectivenessKeeping up with the news from Accra
05 August 2008: - Aid effectivenessCivil society response to new Accra agenda for action
01 August 2008: - ConditionalityThe World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes rules in favour of Tanzanian people
01 August 2008: - Financial architectureFirst draft Financing for Development outcome document breaks some new ground but misses key development finance issues
01 August 2008: - GovernanceAfrican solutions to African problems
01 August 2008: - Aid effectiveness - ConditionalitySigns Accra could result in Agenda for Inaction
24 July 2008: - Aid effectivenessSpanish seminars on democratic ownership and mutual accountability
17 July 2008: - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - Aid accountingCan 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 debtNew UN independent expert on effects of foreign debt and IFIs
16 July 2008: - Bilateral debt39 CSOs sign up urging EU to cancel Haiti’s debt
16 July 2008: - Aid effectivenessNew report condemns donor proliferation in climate change sector
16 July 2008: - Aid effectivenessMutli-stakeholder consultation urges effective use of foreign aid in reducing poverty
11 July 2008: - Financial architectureLatest news on the FfD process
10 July 2008: - Aid effectivenessCivil Society responds to new Accra Agenda for Action
10 July 2008: - Illegitimate debt - Governance - Debt sustainability200 signatories demand that G8 tackle debt, food and climate crises
10 July 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Governance - Aid accountingNew FRIDE report explores political implications of aid effectiveness
08 July 2008: - ConditionalityBruegel and EURODAD organise roundtable on IMF Structural Conditionality
03 July 2008: - Aid effectivenessReport: Experts meeting on vertical funds
03 July 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsEuropean Investment Bank’s unhappy birthday celebrations
02 July 2008: - Aid effectivenessChinese “development” activities in Africa subject of CTA briefing
02 July 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsLatin Americans agree further details for Bank of the South
02 July 2008: - Illegitimate debtIllegitimate debt bulletin: Issue 7
27 June 2008: - Aid effectivenessEurodad Hosts Experts Meeting on Vertical Programs
24 June 2008: - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - International Financial InstitutionsJubilee Act Passes the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
19 June 2008: - ConditionalityEurodad testifies at US House Hearing on World Bank conditionality
19 June 2008: - Aid effectivenessAction for Global Health report calls for enhanced health aid
18 June 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Aid accountingOECD Survey reveals discrepancies in quality and predictability of aid
10 June 2008: - Debt sustainability - Illegitimate debt - Financial architectureAre lenders serious about the 2015 debt crisis?
05 June 2008: - ConditionalityWorld Bank and IMF emergency loans: a cure or a curse for the food crisis?
05 June 2008: - Debt sustainabilityUN consultation emphasises unfinished debt agenda
04 June 2008: - Aid effectivenessAfrican Parliamentarians take a proactive stance on aid effectiveness
04 June 2008: - Aid effectivenessEurodad update and action alert on aid
28 May 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Poverty analysis and strategiesEurodad responds to EU Council conclusions on aid, FfD and food prices
22 May 2008: - Aid effectivenessDonors 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 strategiesWorkshop advocates transparent arbitration in debt disputes
14 May 2008: - Debt sustainability - Financial architectureLatin Americans issue statement for heads of state summit
08 May 2008: - ConditionalityThe Asian Development Bank’s strategy: to have one’s cake and eat it
08 May 2008: - Aid effectivenessSachs appeals for new agriculture aid fund
07 May 2008: - Capital Flight - Financial architectureTowards a stable and development friendly financial system
23 April 2008: - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debtEurodad Report Back: Bank/Fund and UN FfD meetings, Spring 2008
21 April 2008: - Debt sustainabilityJubilee Act Passed by U.S. House
18 April 2008: - Aid effectivenessAid and review of the Monterrey Consensus
18 April 2008: - Financial architectureCurrency transaction taxes and responsible financing at the UN
18 April 2008: - Aid effectivenessUS launch of Eurodad aid effectiveness report
18 April 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsSeminar on structural conditionality at the IMF
10 April 2008: - Debt sustainabilityFinance ministers debate Eurodad charter
10 April 2008: - Aid effectiveness - Bilateral debtAid effectiveness and Financing for Development: EC pledges
08 April 2008: - Financial architectureA taxing agenda for the IMF
08 April 2008: - ConditionalityEurope questions IFIs on conditionality: whose outcome?
03 April 2008: - Aid effectivenessDonors putting brakes on aid effectiveness?
03 April 2008: - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectivenessBank both player and referee in road to Accra
01 April 2008: - Debt sustainability - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debtTajikistan: on the brink of economic collapse
28 March 2008: - Aid effectivenessPress release: Patchy progress by world's donors in reforming aid, warns new report
27 March 2008: - Financial architecture - Debt sustainabilityJoint NGO Letter to G20 on Responsible Lending
27 March 2008: - Multilateral debtLiberia reaches Decision Point under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative
14 March 2008: - Multilateral debt14 NGOs Write to UN Secretary General on Debt
10 March 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsBreaking the IMF’s grip on financial and monetary policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
10 March 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsEuropeans in Washington – waiting for U.S. proposals?
07 March 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsUK parliamentarians reproach DFID decision-making on World Bank funding increase
28 February 2008: - Illegitimate debtIllegitimate Debt Campaign Bulletin: Issue 5
20 February 2008: - ConditionalityThe World Bank and IMF’s long shadow over Zambia’s copper mines
19 February 2008: - Aid effectivenessAid effectiveness and Accra: latest update
15 February 2008: - Aid effectivenessEuropean NGOs call on EU to deliver better aid
08 February 2008: - ConditionalityRoundtable in Brussels to discuss outcome-based conditionality
08 February 2008: - ConditionalityDonors and recipients meet in Cairo to talk about the future of conditionality
11 January 2008: - ConditionalityOutcome-based conditionality: breaking the conditionality grip?
11 January 2008: - Financial architectureFinancing for Development: a step closer to Doha
09 January 2008: - International Financial InstitutionsThe IMF neglects its own conditionality policies
21 December 2007: Launch of China and Africa report in Brussels
19 December 2007: - International Financial InstitutionsWhat the World Bank lost in Berlin
18 December 2007: - Financial architectureMovements 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 architectureThe Bank of the South is launched in Argentina
18 December 2007: - Illegitimate debtCommentary on the draft World Bank paper: The concept of odious debts: some considerations
11 December 2007: - ConditionalityNorwegian study examines Eurodad and World Bank conditionality analysis
30 November 2007: - International Financial InstitutionsWill the World Bank's new IDA money make a difference?
29 November 2007: - ConditionalityThe World Bank’s quiet push for privatisation in Afghanistan
16 November 2007: - Financial architectureFinancing for Development: from Monterrey to Doha
13 November 2007: - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Debt sustainabilityDebt Relief for Liberia Finally in Sight
13 November 2007: - Illegitimate debtIllegitimate debt bulletin: Issue 4
09 November 2007: - Illegitimate debtCall to Norwegian and Ecuadorian governments for a task force on illegitimate debt
25 October 2007: - International Financial InstitutionsA 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 debtLowdown on World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2007
23 October 2007: - Bilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Aid effectivenessEcuador: update on debt audit commission
22 October 2007: - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debtIMF failing Liberia
16 October 2007: - Illegitimate debt - International Financial InstitutionsWorld Bank draft discussion paper on odious debt: a call for a full, independent peer review
12 October 2007: - International Financial InstitutionsWorld vs Bank: public hearing on the World Bank in The Hague
11 October 2007: - Financial architecture - International Financial InstitutionsOne step closer to the Bank of the South
11 October 2007: - International Financial Institutions - GovernanceProposal for reform of World Bank governance
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