It’s official, the global economy is a ‘debtor’s prison’
As the World Bank and IMF sound the alarm on debts driven sky high by Covid-19 in some of the world’s poorest nations, Nick Dearden explains why debt ‘relief’ will not cut it – we need system change.
The way out of Argentina’s debt crisis
Since the early 2000s, Argentina has been forced into a cycle of debt and austerity. Nick Dearden presents solutions to this coercive, financialized system.
Structural adjustment 2.0
Debt crises are back with a vengeance as the dollar goes from strength to strength and interest rates rise. As the International Monetary Fund keeps pushing austerity, Zambian journalist Zanji Valerie Sinkala explores…
Payback time
Danny Chivers reports on the movements making links between international debt and the climate crisis in a bold and imaginative way.
The interview: Ndongo Samba Sylla
Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla speaks to Hazel Healy about why he thinks ‘neo-colonialism’ is an outdated term.
After the floods, Pakistan needs reparations, not charity
Cancel the debt, or let the Bretton Woods group profit from climate disaster, writes Farooq Tariq.
A human story
Economies in a tailspin will need a different vision to steady them, believes Dinyar Godrej.
Event: Time to pay up (Online)
Join us on Monday 25 September to discuss the growing demands for debt cancellation, and climate reparations alongside special guests.
The next financial crisis
Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt overload? Leading economists including Jayati Ghosh, Cédric Durand and others speculate on where the next crisis might come from...
Decolonization – the long goodbye
If you want to build a more just world, we need to confront the legacies of empire, argues Amy Hall.
Argentina’s big squeeze
Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires.
New Internationalist's top reads in 2020
As 2020 draws to an end, we look at the journalism which spoke most to our readers.
UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships
Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.
How will the Global South pay for climate change damage?
Using market mechanisms will just push the burden onto those least responsible, say Harpreet Kaur Paul and Harjeet Singh.
China: a post-neoliberal order?
For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of a Chinese century.
Housing is a circus
A new aerial cabaret show explores the housing crisis and the debts of home. Amy Hall reports.
A global just transition
How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.
When the world almost ended
Ten years after the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are.
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Lloyd’s of London’s debt
What would be the cost of reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and ongoing support of fossil fuels? Sahar Shah and Harpreet Kaur Paul explore the Lloyd’s insurance market.
The hidden debt of care
It’s essential work yet it is undervalued across the world. Amy Hall makes the case for putting care front and centre.
