Politics / Debt

In too deep, by Husna Ara.

Spain’s human shields against evictions, by Luke Stobart.

As the International Monetary Fund keeps pushing austerity, Zambian journalist Zanji Valerie Sinkala explores whether that’s really a solution to her country’s economic woes.

Inflation, poverty and hunger, debt, profit and inequality.

Initiatives, action, and further reading on the cost of living.

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution.

Report from Pakistan by Farooq Tariq.

Payback time, by Danny Chivers.

Mozambican campaigners call for debt cancellation.

If the global financial crisis symbolized the decline of the West, it also signalled that the future belongs to China – a superpower that ‘understands’ the developing world better than the US, IMF or World Bank, according to Martin Jacques.

It’s 10 years since the global financial system almost sent the world into a great depression. Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are now.

Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.

We need debt management not reduction, says Dinyar Godrej.

Susan George tells a story that's beyond belief.

Fired up? Here’s were to get more info and tool up to fight the global debt scam.

Debt is used to break nations. But resistance is fertile – and the North could learn a few lessons from the South, argues Nick Dearden.

The austerity prescription fattens the creditors and punishes the innocent. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to the desires of finance.

At any given time countries both owe debts and have them owing to them. Who owes what and what's the bigger crisis – foreign or domestic debt.

Vulture funds buy up ‘bad’ debt owed by countries in distress and aggressively sue for full payment, plus compound interest.

The standard response to the current financial crisis has been to punish the presumed debtors. Are the creditors blameless, then? asks Dinyar Godrej.