Fears raised about cost of PPP hospital in Uganda
Uganda Debt Network says government has guaranteed $380 million in payments for hospital which was due to cost $250 million The Uganda Debt Network has raised concerns about the financing…
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EU Court of Auditors criticism “should be final nail in coffin of PPPs”
The EU Court of Auditors have released a report today which says that “EU co-financed Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) cannot be regarded as an economically viable option for delivering public…
Petition hand-in: stop exporting healthcare debt
This week we delivered hundreds of campaign postcards to the Department of Health, calling for an end to the promotion of private finance for healthcare in the global south.
African Finance Ministers call for greater transparency of PPPs
Finance Ministers of low income Francophone countries have called for a range of measures to ensure the costs of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are transparent. In a communique at the IMF…
Impoverished countries are being sold a dangerous private finance scheme
A new manifesto has been launched by civil society organisations from all over the globe, to condemn this exploitative financial practice
Campaign improves IMF debt assessments, but risk of crises continues to increase
The IMF and World Bank have agreed some positive changes to their system for monitoring debts of impoverished countries, though some large issues have been ignored. The system, known as…
Welcome for Labour Private Finance Initiative announcement
Reacting to John McDonnell’s announcement that the Labour party will bring existing PFI contracts back in-house, and that the Labour party will “End the UK government’s financial and advisory support…
UK government promotes rip-off health PFI schemes abroad which it disowns at home
Liam Fox, Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel have all criticised the costs of PFI schemes in the UK, yet their departments are all actively promoting similar schemes in…
Double standards: How the UK promotes rip-off health PPPs abroad
This report (24 pages) concerns Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare, known in the UK as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) It exposes how such PPPs have been an expensive…
Debt justice and the 2017 general election
Ahead of the 2017 general election, Jubilee Debt Campaign have produced a short guide and suggested question for four vital issues: The UK’s role in Africa’s debt crisis The global debt…