Public services play a critical role in advancing human rights and fighting inequality. However, growing levels of external public debt, especially in the global south, threaten the very services on which citizens depend in order to have even a basic standard of living.
Debt Justice
Out of service: How public services and human rights are being threatened by the growing debt crisis
- Debt Justice
- Debt Resolution
Eurodad's priorities for 2020
2020 starts the ten-year countdown for the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also a critical period for a just response to climate change, ensuring that those who are the least responsible do not pay the greatest price.
- Climate Finance

Haiti 10 years after the earthquake: The fight for social and economic justice
#Haiti #EconomicJustice #WorldBank #EU #CBCR #TaxJustice #JobVacancy
- Development Finance
Haiti 10 years after the earthquake: the fight for social and economic justice continues
On January 12 2010 an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale ripped through Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and other parts of Haiti. More than 1.5 million people, representing 15 per cent of the country's population, were directly affected by the earthquake. According to the Haitian government, 316,000 people lost their lives. An estimated US$ 7.8 billion dollars of damage was caused - equivalent to more than 120 per cent of the GDP of 2009. Everyone in Haiti has a story that begins or ends on 12 January and many wounds remain open. Everyone lost someone. Everyone remembers where they were that day.
- Debt Justice
- Debt Resolution

Failure To Fly: Challenges and lessons learned from public-private partnerships in Tunisia
#DevelopmentFinance #PPPs #Tunisia #Argentina #EU #GreenDeal
- Climate Finance
Report from the Expert Seminar - Promoting governance innovation in sovereign debt restructurings: What are our options?
This seminar took place in the context of an emerging wave of debt crises across the globe, and an especially acute situation in Argentina, which had already partly defaulted on sovereign debts and announced that action on debt needs to be taken.
- Debt Justice
- Debt Resolution
The right finance crucial to success of the EU’s Green New Deal
The new European Commission is sending a clear signal by tabling a “Green New Deal” within a month of its inception. But to be a true statement of intent rather than a mere public relations manoeuvre, it must speak to the urgency for action.
- Climate Finance

EU Ministers fail to take any decisive action on corporate tax transparency
#DevelopmentFinance #CBCR #UNCTAD #UN #EU #JobVacancy #ODI
- Aid Effectiveness
The Bretton Woods Institutions, 75 years on: reform or risk irrelevance.
The Bretton Woods Institutions were built on the ruins of an old world-order, at the end of World War II, and the dawn of a new world order, marked by the birth of many new nation-states and the onset of the cold-war.
- Aid Effectiveness
- Global Processes
Making debt work for development: Wrap-up of the 12th UNCTAD Debt Management Conference
The 12th UNCTAD Debt Management Conference titled “Making debt work for development” took place in Geneva this week. At one of the best attended policy conferences ever, several hundred participants – including Eurodad staff, members and partners - discussed topics such as how to tackle the unfolding developing country debt crisis, debt sustainability analyses for a new debt landscape, new debt transparency initiatives, and more effective debt workout mechanisms. Participants agreed that urgent action is needed to address the new wave of debt crises, and called for more political will.
- Debt Justice